Decent breakfast today (disappointed at the garlic bread from ALDI - back to Woolsworths I go!), but hunger was almost ever-present during the last few hours, was happy to finally break fast.
Onto Ephesians Chapter 3 today, which focuses on the 'Mystery' (Of Jesus? Of our salvation?), according to the understandings of Paul.
"To me, who am less than the least of the saints, this GRACE was given..." Eph 3:8
As talked about in the previous chapter, we are saved not by our own works, but solely by grace, through out faith, which is exercised through works.
"...How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery..." Eph 3:3
God is always willing to reveal his will to us through thoughts, people around us, situations and circumstances, but the big question I guess I have to ask myself is :
AM I EXPECTING IT?
Say for example, you arrange to meet your friend at a certain busy (and therefore noisy) sidewalk in the city at a certain time. And suppose you arrive an hour early and decide to wait somewhere around the meeting spot. Now if your friend arrives 30 minutes earlier, and he is on the other side of the street, if he calls out to you, will you be able to hear him and respond? Bearing in mind you are completely not expecting him to be there that early and the noisy afternoon crowd does not help matters.
As described above, the 2 main reasons we fail to hear from God are :
1. We are not expecting it
2. We are letting the distractions around us interfere with our concentration and miss out hearing the actual message
And in the same way, we must be always open and receptive towards His voice, even in the midst of a hectic schedule. Thus there is a need to train our eyes and ears, to see and hear according to what He wants us to see. And it is exactly that space we are hoping to open up during this 40 days of prayer and fasting.
Oh yeah : Curry powder Basa fish fillets, deep fried till golden brown, for dinner!
Prayer : Dear Lord, we pray this day that You make us your empty vessels, ready and willing to do Your will, which You have in store for us. Continue to mold and shape us to be submissive and contrite, and open our eyes and ears so that we might see and hear what You want us to. We also pray, Father, that you build up our faith, that we might be able to love others like You have first loved us. In Jesus' name we ask and pray, Amen.
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