Who sent you into that profession? Did you pray for God’s guidance or it was an arrangement and wish of your relatives? Who sent you to that relationship? Your desires? Convenience? Desperation? Or did you pray about it? Who sent you into that marriage? Unexpected pregnancy? Unemployment? Advancing age? Or did you pray for God’s will to be clear on that marriage? Be very clear on who sent you!
You cannot be clear on who you are not unless you are clear on who you are. When you know who you are, you also know who you are not. When you know who you are not, it follows that you know who you are. Be clear on who you are not!
Bad parenting leads to poor adults and regretting senior citizens. Bad adults lead to bad marriages. Bad adults lead to poor leaders and society. Regretting senior citizens, bad marriages, bad leaders, and a bad society are a recipe for unprecedented disaster. Where did it all begin? Bad parenting. We, therefore, need to fix parenting as soon as possible. In the event of pregnancy, parenting begins immediately!
From this situation, we learn that before marriage you are unmarried. Even if you have dated, courted, engaged and dowry has been paid, you should not engage in sexual activity until marriage is officially declared. This being the circumstance, God addressed Mary about the pregnancy as if she was single and unmarried because though engaged, she was indeed unmarried.
If Jesus had stayed and enjoyed the success of the previous day, He would have become a village hero, yet He was destined to be a national hero then a global hero. There are many village heroes who would have become global heroes, but they stayed in the village to celebrate one success. Success ruined their entire agenda. Village success distracted them from national and global pursuits. Don’t let success ruin your next agenda!
Many things boggle our minds. These are women in our religious standards we wouldn’t think deserve anything. Foreigners! Widows! Prostitute! We wouldn’t allow them to even sing in the choir. We would totally deny them religious joy, believing we are doing God a service. Yet the people we are vehemently denying access to religion are the people God prefers. This is the mind-boggling story of three women in two texts!
Are you having endless problems that are responding to no solution? Are you wondering where the current crisis came from? Are you trying to trace from where the rains started beating you? Are there situations you do not like that are not making sense? Think carefully seemingly unrelated things are related!
We learn from God that we need to be very patient with each other. We should follow a justice system that is so transparent that even the guilty acknowledges that the process was fair. We must not just want to be fair, but also be seen as being fair. The highest point in the justice system is not just when justice is served but also when the guilty suffer punishment but do not cast doubt on the process.
A person who is in a relationship should not be wandering about as if they are single. There is a mannerism associated with someone who has found a loved one. The lady tells the man, I should no longer conduct myself as if I am available to any other person. Therefore, I should know more about you and when I come out I come straight to you. This is why I need to know more about you. My love, I need to know more about you!