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"Karena itu Aku berkata kepadamu: Janganlah kuatir akan hidupmu, akan apa yang hendak kamu makan atau minum, dan janganlah kuatir pula akan tubuhmu, akan apa yang hendak kamu pakai. Bukankah hidup itu lebih penting dari pada makanan dan tubuh itu lebih penting dari pada pakaian ? Pandanglah burung-burung di langit, yang tidak menabur dan tidak menuai dan tidak mengumpulkan bekal dalam lumbung, namun diberi makan oleh Bapamu yang di sorga. Bukankah kamu jauh melebihi burung-burung itu ?"

Matius 6 : 25-26

Firman Tuhan mengatakan dengan jelas pada kita bahwa kita tidak boleh khawatir akan hidup kita, akan apa yang akan terjadi di masa depan bahkan akan apa yang akan kita alami hari ini. Tapi kalau boleh jujur, ada dari banyak kita yang sangat mudah khawatir akan apa yang akan terjadi, bahkan ada terlalu banyak orang yang bertindak karena rasa khawatirnya, yang malah akhirnya mengakibatkan hal buruk dalam hidupnya.

Tuhan ajarkan pada kita untuk jangan pernah khawatir, bukankah burung – burung di langit yang tidak menuai dan tidak mengumpulkan bekal dalam lumbung, namun diberi makan oleh Tuhan. Apalagi kita yang adalah anakNya, ciptaanNya yang paling mulia, pasti tidak akan pernah Ia tinggalkan. Jangan pernah khawatir akan apapun, dan jangan biarkan kekhawatiranmu menguasaimu, tapi biarkan Roh Tuhan yang menguasai kita, sehingga hidup kita penuh dengan kemenangan dari hari ke hari.

Setiap kita pasti mengetahui bahwa Tuhan yang kita sembah adalah Tuhan yang baik, bahkan saking baiknya Tuhan yang kita sembah, Ia rela berkorban bagi kita dengan tergantung di kayu salib, tapi pertanyaannya, apakah kita sudah mengecap kebaikan dari Tuhan yang Maha baik itu, pernahkah kita merasakan kebaikanNya. Banyak orang pasti akan menjawab, “Ya” tapi apabila pertanyaannya dirubah menjadi seperti ini, apakah jawabannya tetap sama, “Apakah kamu merasakan kebaikan Tuhan hari ini ?” Mungkin setiap kita akan menjawab “Ya” karena ini adalah jawaban yang harus kita berikan sebagai umat Tuhan.

Tapi apakah itu jawaban yang dengan jujur keluar dari hati kita. Sebegai umat Tuhan mungkin kita punya tendensi untuk berkata bahwa Tuhan itu adalah Tuhan yang baik, tapi apakah hati kita setuju dengan perkataan kita, ingat Tuhan itu adalah Tuhan yang melihat hati, bahkan hal yang tersembunyi di kedalaman hati kita pun Ia tahu. Sekarang, coba jujur dengan hati ini, jujur ketika pertanyaan di atas kita dengarkan, apakah kita bisa menjawab dengan segenap hati, “Ya, Engkau Tuhan yang sangat baik bagiku.” Atau mungkin kita tetap berkata bahwa Dia tetap Tuhan yang baik, tapi setiap perkataan yang keluar dari mulut kita adalah perkataan yang hambar bahkan hati kita tidak bergetar sedikit pun ketika mengatakan itu.

Apabila kita dalam kondisi itu, mungkin saat itu hati kita sedang jauh dari Tuhan, sehingga kita tidak bisa melihat setiap kebaikan Tuhan yang kita terima. Padahal kita bisa bangun dengan keadaan yang sehat, menikmati makan pagi yang nikmat, mengendarai kendaraan ke kantor atau ke sekolah, dan masih banyak lagi, hal – hal tersebut bukankah sebuah berkat dari yang Maha baik, tapi masalahnya apakah kita bisa melihat semua itu, apakah kita bisa mengucap syukur atas hal – hal kecil yang Ia kerjakan dalam hidup kita, atau malah kita hambar dengan setiap yang Tuhan sediakan dalam hidup kita.

Hari ini, pilihlah untuk membuka mata kita, dan kecaplah kebaikan Tuhan yang tidak pernah putus dalam hidup ini. Karena Ia Tuhan yang baik, bahkan kasih setiaNya tidak pernah habis dalam hidup kita.

Jeremiah 1 : 17;19 : Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them. And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.

Actually, we live in this world with purpose. As you can see in the verses above, God said to Jeremiah to speak all that He commanded him to speak to Israelites. But before He did what God asked Him to do, God warned him first, that if they will fought him and if he got dismayed at them God would dismayed him before them. He said that clearly, His rule is clearly here. He said, if you dismayed by them, so I will dismayed you before them. It just like He said that, we need to do His will with faith and trust, how can we obey them with hesitation in our heart. You know, He knows our heart, even in the deepest part of our heart, He knows it. And then, how it feels that if He find us do His will but there is doubt in our heart ? Have you read that, ‘When the Son Of Man cometh to earth, shall He found faith on the earth.’

The thing is, He knows everything, even the slightest hesitation in our heart, He knows it. You know, He can’t be wrong. It’s impossible for Him to be wrong, just when He asks us to do something, He wants us to do it with faith, fully believe to Him, what He looks is faith, trust Him, have you ever read that He can be wrong, never right. So, just trust Him and do everything as He wants us to do, because He loves someone who trust Him. Remember Abraham, what made God fell for Him, what made God wants to be a friend of a man, that because Abraham fully believe Him, when God asked Abraham to leave his country, He just obeyed even though He didn’t know who was talked with Him, He didn’t know who is God that time, but He choose to believe, to believe that strange voice, and I believe that moment, made His heart flutter. If we can obey Him, without any single compromise and hesitation, His promise, He will never let our enemy, evil, prevail against us, for Him always with us, to deliver us. Amen.

Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. (Rome 4 : 9 – 12)

These days, God had spoken to me about covenant that He had made with Abraham, and this morning the verses suddenly comes up as my devotional. It’s interesting that the verses spoke about Abraham faith which God has reckoned as righteousness. If we dig deeper for the verses, it said that Abraham’s faith was reckoned as a righteousness not after he had circumcised but before that. And the interesting thing here is, word circumcision which means peritome in Greek, which is metaphorically means : 1. Separation from unclean multitude and consecrated for God. 2. The extinction of passions and removal of spiritual impurity.

It said that, Abraham became the Father Of Believer legally after he had circumcised, so circumcision is a symbol of the covenant between God and Abraham. Not just that, circumcision is a symbol that we are the descendants of Abraham. So it means, we have right to receive the covenant which God had promised to Abraham. And what is the promise ? God has promised to Abraham that, He will give them, Abraham descendants, nations and because of them nations will be blessed, so it means they become the decider who will decide a nation fate. But who are they ? who are the descendants of Abraham ? Israel ? Yes, they are Abraham biological descendants. But bible said, Abraham descendants is they are who received circumcision, absolutely what I mean is not physically circumcised, but spiritually circumcised. We often hear that, Jesus call Israelite that they are physically circumcised but spiritually not, right.

Maybe we are not direct line of Abraham, or not even have his genetic, but if we are spiritually circumcised, which means we are separated from unclean multitude and consecrated for God; we extinct our worldly desire and to remove our spiritual impurities, and in the 12th verse said, walk in the same road as Abraham, that is road of faith, or to simplify it I will just call it, live by faith just like Abraham, in the strange land.

If, we want to inherit the covenant that God had given to Abraham, so we need to pass the qualification as Abraham’s Descendant, that is spiritually circumcised and live by faith just like Abraham obey God, he didn’t know what kind of place that God will lead him to, but he simply obey and trust Him, and leave his oldman house. Everything is full of uncertainty but he simply trust God and walk by faith, because in God there is certainty, and God reckoned it as righteousness.

God’s promise to Abraham is so amazing, and if we act like these verses said, to circumcise and live by faith like Abraham, believe it the Covenant that God has made with Abraham will be fulfilled in our life. God will take us higher and admirable, but remember in the covenant there is condition, meet the condition so we can see His covenant be fulfilled in our life. If you said you are child of Abraham spiritually, but you don’t see anything that God has promised happen in you life, ask yourself, are you meet the condition or not ? meet the condition that God wants, and you will see, the blessing will come abundantly to you. Amen.

Who is ever expereinced failure ? All people have ever expereinced a humuliated failure, even in some cases there are a lot of people who done something stupid because of their failure. There was a case in a town in Indonesia, which there was a mother who killed her children, because her bussines was bankrupt and made her in a lot of pressure about how she can pay for the tuition of the children and made her did something really stupid, killed her own children and then suicide.

That day, there was a family who die in vain. I don’t know where they heading to after they dead like that, but their death is really unnecessary. It is true a failure is so hurt, I often see news about people who is suicide after they expereinced failure, but do you know, our life is in God’s hand (Isiah 55 : 8), God knows and understand what we will face in the future, even He lets something bad happen to us not only because He knows that we can surpass it but He wants to teach us for us become mature enough to inherit all things that He wants us to have, like autority, power, and prosperity. But evil against that, so he always accuses all of you, accuses you for your failure and push you down with it. And it is your decision to fall in his trap or to rise and shine.

I hope, we understand God’s desire and His plan for us. Fall and fail is hurt, yes. Even maybe make us afraid to go out from our house because we are to embrass to face people around us. But I believe, you can surpass it because you are stronger than that (I Cor 10 : 13), because you are the child of God, The Mighty God, a prince or princess from The King Of Universe. Believe that His eyes always watch for you, belive that The Guardian Of Israel is never sleep, His eyes always on you (2 Chornicle 16 : 9). Can you believe Him and keep running to chase your destiny in Him, don’t care what obstacle that you need face, don’t care what people will say about you in the future, can you trust His plan (Jeremiah 11 : 29), for there is an end and expectation shall not be cut off from you (Proverbs 23 : 18), and for He is the same God, the God who led Israel out form Egypt and enter their promise land. For He is the same God who took Joseph to be a prime minister of Egypt, the same God who made David to be the king of Israel and the world to bow before him. So don’t ever give up, whatever the obstacle, whatever the circumtances, and whatever that want to take you down face it and believe God, in His strength you will win the battle of faith. Amien.

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