What happened to my favor? Leviticus 26:14-4
Praise the Lord, hallelujah, I am blessed and highly favored! At least I used to be! I don’t even know when it left or if I left it. All I know is that it’s gone. It used to be as if I had the Midas touch. Anything that I touched turned to proverbial gold. However, here lately nothing seems to be working out for me. Every time I think that I am getting it right things seem to fall apart. I seem to be getting the worst end of the deal. I pray and nothing seems to change. I call on God but I hear no answer. What happened? Surely, God could not have taken his blessings away from me. Well maybe for some of those other folk BUT NOT ME. Or, did he?
I find it to be ironic that people can find excuses on why they can’t serve God or return a kind gesture to someone who has been nice to them. As if we have a right to demand, mandate and take without any feeling of obligation. Almost so indignant as to say God would never take his hand off me. It is unfortunate that we go through life taking things, people and even God for granted. We paddle along as if we have some God given right to all the blessings bestowed on us.
Unfortunately, we figure it out, when we find ourselves talking to ourselves and discover that God has long turned his ear from us and that our arrogance has separated us from his love and merciful hand. That we took his mercy for granted too long and now he can’t be found.
Now we suffer from the penalty of our foolishness. Where he once made our enemies or footstools, he now allows them to devour us. Instead of having a Midas touch you now have a touch of destruction. Feast and excess was once known but now famine is the norm. You used to be able to reach God in his holy place but now the door is locked and you’ve lost your key to the inner court. Your prayers that used you have power have lost the ability to reach beyond the ceiling.
What happened?
When you should have been praying you talked on the phone, slept or watched TV.
When you should have been at church, you found frivolous things to occupy your time. You planned events on church times. You took jobs that took you away from church. You allowed your friends and family to make you miss church.
Instead of fasting, you used every health issue as a reason for why you could not endure for even an hour or two.
Instead of worshiping you let the flesh cause you to think about flesh driven things thus keeping you out of the inner court.
The truth is that now that you have broken your covenant with GOD your vows were in vain and now God has cashed in on his part of the bargain. God never had to take his favor from you the fact is you tossed it away with your selfish wondering ways.
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. (Deut 23:21)
Is it time to repent and reconfirm your vow with GOD?
Peace, Pastor K. T. Jackson