Sensitivity and Possibility

UV 859/10,000 Sensitivity and Possibility “Behold the Lord’ hand is not so short that it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.” Isaiah 59 v 1 The Lord is mighty to save. He has no limitations. Nothing is too hard or impossible for Him. Think of all the hard things in our lives and if we ask ourselves, “ Is it too hard for the Lord to solve these problems?”, if our faith is strong, the answer will be in the affirmative. God shuts His eyes and ears and does not move a finger to help us only when we are stubborn and entrenched in sin. His outstretched arm can reach any part of the universe or deep inside our tiny hearts and minds to cause healing and deliverance. His eyes can discern our deepest desires and emotions. His ears can hear even our heart beat, our thoughts, our sighs and our whispers. His power is so great, His sensitivity to human longings and the pain we suffer is so high that often He responds even before the prayer has scarcely left our lips. It is the sensitivity of the Triune God that opens the doors of every possibility in our lives. Similarly, when we incline our ears to the Lord, it makes possible the manifestation of divine power, love and grace. But due to our human conditioning and disbelief, we limit God by the extent of our faith. We do not entrust to Him our greatest source of despair and longing. We are not willing to let go of our doubt and fear. We allow the enemy of our souls, satan to plague our minds with worries, to make us ineffective and weak. Our own hands cannot reach very far and so we assume that the Lord can also intervene in our real life situations only to that extent. Our own ears can hear only one voice at a time and so we assume that the Lord is preoccupied with the prayers of multitudes of prayer and so would not be able to hear our heart’s cry. Sometimes, when we face seemingly impossible odds, we think that nothing can save us, not even God. Elijah was fearful and frustrated when he became a fugitive trying to escape the wrath of the wicked Jesebel. But, the Lord sent a chariot of fire to transport him to heaven and so do the impossible such that the despairing prophet did not even taste death. When the angry Peter drew a sword and cut the ear of the servant of the High Priest who had come along with soldiers to arrest Jesus, Jesus stretched forth His hand and restored the severed ear. He is the God of restoration, the Lord of redemption of lost souls. Nothing is too big or too small for the Lord to intervene. He is interested in deeply engaging with our lives in all its intimate details. When it comes to the Lord, there is no way we can screen Him out saying, “ This is my personal matter. I will handle it.” The key to expand our faith that it more or less corresponds to the actual dimensions of God’s power and love is to behold Him, to constantly train our eyes on His glory, to incline our ears and our inner hearing to perceive His voice and to act as open mouths to swallow His Word, to store and treasure His received Word in our hearts and minds, to use our mouths to always affirm the possibilities of God. Prateep V Philip