Obadiah was a contemporary of Elijah and Ahab. He was a good man but he was out looking for grass with Ahab when he should have been praying for rain with Elijah. While he was out on grass-hunting expeditions to relieve the drought, Elijah the solitary man of God was ready to call Israel to a confrontation, to the showdown that always must precede the showers of blessing. We waste our time working with the powers that be, trying to improve conditions today, when the only answer lies in squarely facing the issue of Baal or Jehovah.
Devotion of the Day
FINISHING GRACE
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalm 71:18
The Psalmist prays that he may demonstrate God in his old age, both to his own generation and to all who are to come, even as he has declared God in his youth. It is a worthy ambition. The eyes of the Lord are looking for someone in whose behalf He may show Himself strong, and the Psalmist wants to demonstrate God’s strength, not his own. Paul lived to demonstrate Christ’s strength made perfect in his weakness.
We are seeing a demon-stration of the powers of darkness these days. We need a demonstration of God in human lives. Too many of us are showing what we can do. The Psalmist wanted to show what God could do. He wanted to finish in old age what he had begun in youth. Some declare God in early life, deny Him in later years. Paul wanted to finish his course with joy.
Pray God for finishing grace!