I finished doing a sample
for one company and on the way home I felt an inner urging to go by and pick up
my check from my sculptor friend Evgeni. When I got there he said he just got
another job and asked if I wanted to help. I said yes and started painting
immediately. The great thing is that I didn’t have another job lined up yet, so
the timing was perfect.
My experience wasn’t earth
shattering but it did make a big difference in my finances for this week and
that’s important enough to me and to God.
People who don’t know
better might want to call this a coincidence. But I don’t believe in
coincidence. Did you know that in the Hebrew language there isn’t even a word
for coincidence? The Bible says we’re either walking by the flesh or walking by
the spirit. Nothing happens by chance.
One of my good friends is
being investigated and falsely accused in a certain sheriff’s department. She
needed some encouragement and advice. A few Sunday’s ago she felt led to check
out a new church and as she was heading home, “I saw a girl I know on her front
porch, who worked at and left the Sheriff’s Office before I started working
there.” This girl had also been harassed by the same people who were accusing
my friend, so they got to talk about some details that will be very helpful to
my friend as she wisely maneuvers through this difficult situation.
When we pray for help in
walking by the spirit, and we do it, the results are always positive because
the Lord Jesus always wants the best for us. And all Christians can walk by the
spirit.
God gives us a great
example in Simeon. He didn’t have a degree or title and he was a pretty regular
Jewish believer. Luke 2:25 says, “There was a man whose name was Simeon; just
and devout.” This tells me he was doing his best to be a fair man and he was
faithful in his heart to God.
The Holy Spirit had
revealed to him that before he died he would get to see God’s messiah. Then on
one ordinary day, “he came by the spirit into the temple” (Lk 2:27). It was the
exact day and time that Joseph and Mary brought the young child Jesus! Simeon
“took him up in his arms, blessed God and said, ‘Lord now lettest they servant
depart in peace, for my eyes have seen thy salvation’” (vss. 28-29). The Holy
Spirit inspired Simeon and he went on to give an awesome prophecy over Mary,
Joseph and the child Jesus.
We don’t hear any more
about this man Simeon and in fact this happened near the end of his life here
on earth. But I believe God had this record put in the Bible so that we could learn
how important and wonderful it is to respond to the urgings of the spirit from
within our hearts. One author calls these incidents “God Winks.” Positive
results come from just one ordinary person endeavoring to walk by the spirit.
For me, it increased my
finances for the week. For my friend, it encouraged her and will aid her in a
possible court case. For Simeon it was how he got to meet Jesus face to face.
Galatians 5:25 says, “Let us also walk in the
Spirit.” And Romans 8:14, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God.”
We can pray, “Lord
Jesus, help me to walk by the spirit today.”
Love, Carolyn
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