Psalm 18:29-30 [NLT] ‘In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall. God’s way is perfect. All the Lord’s promises prove true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.’
DAILY READING; Mark 1:21-45; 2 Samuel 3:2-39; Daniel 2:1-23
As a young brilliant engineer, Alexander Mackay was presented with an opportunity that could have led him to great prosperity. He was offered a coveted position to be an engineer of the British East Africa Company, he also had another offer to a high position in the army of General Gordon in Egypt. Alexander declined both offers because he was focused on the call of God upon his life.
His heart burned with the desire to bring the Gospel to thousands in the dark continent of Africa. This desire seemed to weigh upon him like a heavy personal burden. To evangelize Africa was the great passion of his life, and this led him to offer himself to the Church Missionary Society for service in Uganda.
Alexander Mackay wrote to the Church Missionary Society on December 12, 1875 and said, “My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa, and if you can send me to any one of those regions … I shall be very glad.”
His request was accepted and he left England on the 27th April, 1876. In Uganda, he spent many years of devoted and loyal service, but he often suffered bitter persecutions and oppositions.
When sympathetic friends at home and even officers of the Church Missionary Society urged him to take a furlough, to leave Africa and return back home, he wrote back: “What is this you write—’Come home?’ Surely now ..is not the time for anyone to desert his post.”
He refused to accept the tempting offer to return home, and abandon his missionary endeavors due to the hardship of the mission field. Rather he spent the rest of his life forging ahead as a brave explorer, using his skills as an engineer to create roads for the spread of the Gospel in Africa and win souls for Jesus. His life has become a record of heroism that has inspired in other missionaries a God-like zeal to continue the work which he began. Alexander Mackay is known as the Christian who changed the face of Uganda.
As believers, we are never to turn our back in retreat.
Ephesians 6 lists the whole armour of God, that we should put on. In this list of armour there is no back plate and nothing to cover the back half of a Christian. The reason is because we are never meant to turn back and flee from oppositions. Rather our role is to keep going forward with the banner of Christ, advancing God’s kingdom, taking new territories and defeating the powers of darkness.
We are not to flee from the devil rather the Bible tells us the devil must flee from us [James 4:7]
Therefore no matter how tough the battle we must keep pressing forward. Regardless of what comes your way, do not let any situation or circumstances cause you to stop your progress. Turning back should never be an option.
Jesus said, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62).
Obstacles or resistance to our progress should never discourage us. Everyone who has ever experienced greatness in life has moments when they had to overcome the urge to quit. But the purpose of the problem is not to discourage us: it’s to develop us. Problems are nothing more than resistance. Without the resistance of gravity, we cannot walk, without the resistance of water, a ship cannot float and without the resistance of air, planes cannot fly.
God will never let you face a challenge that you can’t overcome. He will never put on you more than what you can bear. In every temptation He will always make a way of escape.
Wherever God sends you, He goes with you. Therefore you are never alone.
In Isaiah 43:2 God says ‘I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:’
Today, believe that God is indeed going ahead of you to destroy the barriers to your progress. By Gods help, you will outlast the oppositions. This year, you will run through every troop, leap over every wall of hindrance and arrive at the mountaintop of victory destined for you.
PRAYER: Father please enable me to keep going forward despite any challenge I may face. Help me to always see that You are with me and by Your grace I will never turn back but will press on to the Gatsby open doors You have for me in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
Everything that ultimately has a glorious ending usually has a humble beginning. WORDBITE 222.
Shalom!
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