Category: Devotion of the Day

HINDER ME NOT

Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way.
Genesis 24:56

Abraham’s servant needed plenty of guidance. A man looking for a wife for himself needs all the illumination he can get, but this servant was looking for a wife for somebody else! Being in the way, as he put it, the Lord led him and he found the right girl. Now the subtle temptation to tarry awhile arises. It looks innocent enough, but he is on his guard. It is dangerous to linger. He will be on his journey. “Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way.”

We are often faced with the tempter’s suggestion to tarry, linger awhile, take it easy. But if the Lord has prospered our way we had better be going. Layovers at Satan’s suggestion become layoffs, and we fail of our mission. The diligent servant who is about his master’s business will take no holiday when he should be up and about and on his way home.

It would have been pleasant to enjoy the hospitality of Rebekah’s kinfolk and they meant well, no doubt. But the most innocent and well-intentioned can spell havoc with God’s timetable.

“Rise, let us be going.”

WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?

Will ye also go away?
John 6:67

As recorded in the sixth chapter of John, Jesus lost His crowd. And if today we really faced the impact of that sermon He preached on the Bread of Life would not most of us say, “This is an hard saying: who can hear it?” Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.” How many, think you, of our present comfortable Sunday-morning churchgoers are ready for that?

The appropriation of Christ our Life by faith – what strange doctrine that is to the average soul! Men follow for loaves and fishes, but they walk out on Him when they discover what He really means. This sort of preaching still will thin out congregations. “This is an hard saying” – we will go elsewhere and hear book reviews.

“Christ our Life” – preach that and you will lose the crowd, but you will have the Irreducible Minimum who say with Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the Living God.”