God-of-the-Angel-Armies said, "They're mine, all mine. They'll get special treatment when I go into action. I treat them with the same consideration and kindness that parents give the child who
honours them. Once more you'll see the difference it makes between being a person who does the right thing and one who doesn't, between serving God and not serving him."
Malachi 3:17 -18 [The Message]
God is faithful. He always does what He says He will do. He doesn't change and He is not like man that He should lie:
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil?
Numbers 23:19 [NIV]
I have been believing God about what He says in Malachi 3. I have consistently done what He says we should do, both in good and bad times and for many years.
There were many times I was tempted to give up, but I did not.
God has recently treated me with kindness and favour. He has kept His promise to treat me in a very special way that is so distinct and different. Everything has been inexplicable.
The reason: When He has done good and a new thing in us, He says He gives glory to no other god or person. He expects us to encourage others by giving Him praise:
'Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
The wild animals honour me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
Isaiah 43: 18-21 [NIV]
God bless
Farai Mutsambiwa
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