Humans remain humans. The ideology of some super humans doing the inconceivable by their strength only exist in fables. We spent our childhood loving and simulating these models because of their superpowers, only for us to see that they were unreal as we grew.
While it is true that some humans have clinched greater feats, yet their strength is limited.
There is a limit to human’s strength.
As Christians, we cannot deny the fact that we are still humans i.e we are still existing in the flesh, and our blood still flows through our arteries and veins. There are quite a lot of things that we cannot accomplish with the human strength.
A portion of the scripture, ” by strength shall no man prevail…” confirms it. This is why God continually emphasizes the need for us to rely on his strength.
The notion that whenever we journey God’s road, we are going to have it all easy is erroneous . All the people God used to perform exploits never had it soft. Nonetheless, they prevailed through divine assistance.
Let’s consider the children of Israel. They were divinely instructed to go out of Egypt. This divine instruction was confirmed by God’s intervention in delivering them from slavery.
Alluding to their experiences, there are times it is evident we are treading the divine path, but like the children of Israel, we encounter the red sea. Not only this, we look back, only to find the adversaries fiercely pursuing us; then we try to maneuver our ways through the red sea. Few might have started nurturing the idea of negotiating their freedom with the enemies.
What should be our reactions in such periods?
Anything ordained by God will certainly be sustained by God.
Like the children of Israel, we are expected to call out to God for help, until the ‘red sea’ is parted.
Whenever we face trials in life, God expects us to reach out to him first. However, some disappoint God by trying to finish what HE has started in their lives. They try to cross their red seas by manufacturing diverse boats that have failed, and will continually fail them.
This is the reason for the futility of the exerted efforts of many.
Any trial on our part to finish God’s project in our lives will land us in frustration.
Some situations will only take God’s miracle for us to have a breakthrough. When we are confronted with seemingly endless impossibilities as vast as the sea, we must acknowledge our need for a miracle to overcome the red sea-like dilemmas, else we get stuck and the enemies catch up on us.
It’s either God splits the red sea for us to walk through on dry land or he makes us walk on them, as Jesus did.
Anything ordained by God will certainly be sustained by God. Hence, his miracles, by his grace, are our sustenance factor.
We do need miracles. The only secret to thriving in hard times like this is God’s miracles which can be in form of his grace and mercies.
It is our sustenance. It keeps us afloat on life’s billows, enlivens our hopes, disappoints the enemies, recover our lost possessions, favors and protects us, and provide our needs.
The divine resources have been, and will continually be our source of life and sustenance.
We need God’s miracles to thrive in these trying times.
Let us keep asking for more of it.