With Whom Do You Have to Do?

With Whom Do You Have to Do?

“And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” Heb. 4:13.

Everything becomes very simple if we have to do only with Him. Everything becomes so complex if we do not reckon with Him but take account of different people and situations instead. . Usually people’s lives are complicated. They blame others for their own difficulties, even for the marriage partner they have received, although it is written that it is God who joins together. Generally speaking, people’s hearts are hard when they judge each other and blame the others for all kinds of things. Paul did not want us to be ignorant of what happened to our forefathers. What happened to them is an example for us to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. These things were written to us by way of exhortation, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 1 Cor. 10:11.

In the epistle to the Hebrews the apostle writes that they should not harden their hearts like their fathers who tested God and proved Him and saw His works for forty years. Ch. 3:7-13. When we read this account, it is plain to see that the fathers hardened themselves against God. But they did not see God. They saw only Moses and Aaron and blamed them for everything. When Joshua and Caleb saw God and spoke the word of faith, contrary to what the ten unbelieving spies had said, the entire people wanted to stone them. Num. 14:6-12.

“They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, ‘This is too much!’” How often do we not hear this from people? And we can hear that their hearts are more or less bitter. It is unbelieving hearts that become evil and bitter, and they fall away from God. Therefore the apostle says that we shall exhort each other every day, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Had we always seen clearly that we have to do with Him before whose eyes everything is naked and open, we would not have been fooled by the deceitfulness of sin. The least amount of bitterness is the beginning of apostasy.

“There is none holy like the Lord, for there is none besides You, nor is there any rock like our God.” 1 Sam. 2:2. This is how Hannah saw it. Therefore she could exhort as follows: “Talk no more so very proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” V. 3. “The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.” Vs. 6-7.

What people could be spared from if they saw things in this light! Think of how many proud and arrogant words are spoken because a person does not see God! Many bitter people, also those who call themselves Christian, go around accusing and blaming other people, not knowing that they have fallen away from God. Even Korah, Dathan, and Abiram believed that Moses and Aaron had exalted themselves, maintaining that God had spoken to them instead. Num. 16.

The hearts of the people were so hardened that even though God performed a miracle and Moses predicted that they would not die like other people, they still did not see God. They blamed Moses and Aaron for having killed them. This is how bitter they could be toward those who loved them and entreated them and prayed to God for them to save their lives.

Become sober, you who are not happy, you who cannot be thankful for everyone and everything. 1 Thess. 5:16-18; 1 Tim. 2:1. You are being fooled by the deceitfulness of sin. Darkness is seeping into your life. Your mind is occupied with people and circumstances so that you do not see God. This is the way of apostasy. Remember that you have to do with God, and be thankful! “For our God is a consuming fire.” Heb. 12:28-29. “Let your meekness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.” Phil. 4:5.