Bedside Watchman - Using Our Opportunities

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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August 17th -- Jeremiah 38

Using Our Opportunities

While the performance of our part is necessary, the accomplishment of final results is all of God, who can prosper or frustrate the devices of men or leave them altogether to their own ineffectual ways. Nevertheless, the experience of both Moses and Joshua shows that if God gives men opportunities, He expects them to discern and enterprisingly use them. There is a time to stand still and see the salvation of God, but it is not when He proposes to work by us. All the promises of God pre-suppose active, diligent, courageous, and care-taking co-operation on the part of those to whom they are made. Where we are in circumstances which makes this exercise on our part impossible -- (as when Jeremiah was in the pit in the court of the prison, sunk to the arm-pits in mire) -- prayer and waiting is the not unavailing alternative.

Robert Roberts, The Ways of Providence, page 333