Isaiah 48:17
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
DAILY READING 1 Corinthians 8; 1 Kings 22; Amos 6
In 1987, at the famous John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, a team of neurosurgeons were faced with a very difficult surgery. They were to separate a set of Siamese twins, joined at the head. Such a surgery had never been done successfully before. In past cases the patients had often bled to death. As the doctors pondered on what to do, one of them decided to turn to God for divine wisdom. He was a young neurosurgeon named Ben Carson. Being a Christian he knew God could help him to solve the medical puzzle. One day, while watching water drip from a tap’s mouth, he suddenly caught an inspiration! Suddenly he knew how to develop a method to stop blood flow during the surgery!
When the time for the surgery came and he applied this method, the surgery was successful. The twins did not bleed to death, they survived. It was a medical breakthrough that suddenly launched Ben Carson into international limelight and sudden fame. He had accomplished what no other doctor had done before.
By connecting to divine wisdom he had received inspiration to accomplish an amazing medical feat.
His story is indeed a testimony of how the wisdom of God can make a difference in a man’s life. Job 32:8 says ‘but there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.’
It takes the inspiration of the Almighty to elevate a man.
Ben Carson began life as a ghetto kid from the inner city of Detroit, brought up by a poor single mother, and had little or no future. It is amazing to see how this boy who hardly had any chance of survival has today turned out to be one of the greatest neurosurgeons the world has ever known. But that is what partnership between man and God can produce.
Many of the inventions that have taken place today are because of the inspiration men received from God on what to do. You cannot go far in life depending on your own wisdom. It is the wisdom of God that makes stars of men. No one gets far with common sense, you need extra ordinary sense to get ahead. Just one word from God is enough to cause your generation to celebrate you.
This is the pattern God has been setting all over the bible, to show us that promotion comes not from the east, nor west or south, but promotion comes from God alone. In the story of Joseph, we see a prisoner who became a prime minister; David a shepherd boy who became king and Esther a slave girl who became queen. This is God’s pattern and God has not changed. He is still showing us today that partnership with Him works. And that He makes impossibilities possible. God is more than enough.
If He could take a boy without prospects from the ghetto, and turn him into a world renowned neurosurgeon, how much more you?
Mathew 6:33 says ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God and every other thing shall be added unto you.’
Don’t waste your time running after things that don’t matter. Make God your priority, and other things will follow, including success. What God did for Joseph, David, Esther, and for Ben Carson, He can also do for you when you put your trust in Him.
PRAYER: Lord, Please give me the grace to always put You first in my life. Please help me to connect to Your Wisdom, so that Your foreordained plan and purpose for me, can come into full manifestation, in Jesus Name. .
QUOTE
When you obey God’s instruction you are delivered from destruction
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK TRIUMPH OF LIGHT OVER DARKNESS]