A slow learner doesn’t get the obvious lesson. Think of a whole class of slow learners. Think of a whole community of slow learners. Yet The Teacher is the best and undoubtedly excellent. This is what Israel was in their relationship with God. The whole community of God’s people was painfully slow in getting the spiritual lessons God was teaching them. God can’t be blamed for sure, these are just difficult people. Spiritual slow learners!
When you are already in trouble, in hot soup, the way out is one, just acknowledge that heaven rules. Acknowledge genuinely. God responds to anyone who pledges allegiance to Him. Manasseh was a wicked king for fifty-five years. As Manasseh went to exile as punishment for his sins, he came to his senses and acknowledged that heaven rules, 2 Chronicles 33:10-13. Immediately Manasseh was restored. When you acknowledge that heaven rules.
Negotiating with God means you seek to understand Him and in certain matters, He would allow you to have your way because it does not defy His will. God tells David through Nathan that he shouldn’t have killed Uriah in order to have his wife Bethsheba, God says, if David should have informed God that he needs another wife or anything else, God says He would have provided, 2 Samuel 12:8. God expected David to engage Him. God expected David to negotiate with Him. You can actually negotiate with God, wow!
This is the best news ever. Our punishment will end. Your financial problems are a punishment for sin. Your punishment will end. Your relationship problems are a punishment for sin. God says your punishment will end. Your I’ll health is a punishment for sin. God says your punishment will end. Your failures, losses, disappointments, and frustration are a punishment for sin. God says your punishment will end!
Therefore the seven women scrambling for a husband is an event of that time when God punished Israel by sending them to the Babylonian captivity. The event is not in the future but in the past. It teaches us that God punishes evil. It teaches us that the evil will someday be so desperate.
The world wonders, where will we get money? The believers respond by praying, dear God provides us with some money. Where the world wonders, the believers pray to God.
The truth remains to be the truth even if no one supported it. The truth doesn’t have to have a good logical argument. If God who can heal, allows a loved to one die after you have prayed without ceasing, would you still praise Him and worship Him? If you are desperate about something but the more you pray the worse it gets and eventually it fails to work out, would you still love God?
There are times to just pray. This is because there is nothing else you can do. This is because if you do something else, it will distract you from the mission and make the situation worse. There are other times when you can’t just pray, you must do something. This is because there is something to do. May God grant us the wisdom to know the difference.
Have you failed? Rise up, dust yourself, and keep on fighting. Loss is not final. Even with the present loss, you can still be the final champion. Keep on fighting and struggling, it won’t last forever. This loss is not final and it’s not a deterrent to final victory. You will be the final winner and yet you will still fail between now and that victory. Even the overall winner losses some rounds!