Thursday... Sometimes being ashamed is a good thing.

Thursday... Sometimes being ashamed is a good thing, it causes us to do a good thing.

Ezra was a prophet in the OT of the Bible and in Ezra 8:21 (NLT) he said, "I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children and our goods as we traveled." That is a very good thing. God wants us to ask him, he wants us to to depend on him to keep us safe, and to protect us. He wants us to come to him and each day ask him to keep us safe and for us to depend on him to do it. Yes he does.

He goes on, verse 22 says, "I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to accompany us and protect us from enemies along the way." Now to ask for help is a good thing so why was he ashamed? He goes on, "After all, we had told the king, 'Our God's hand of protection is on all who worship him, but his fierce anger ranges against those who abandon him '" Verse 23, "So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer."

Now God can use others to fulfill his tasks but he wants us to go to him first. We say we believe in him but we never go to him to ask. We tell others that we have put our trust in God but we never go to him, we never really depend on him.

We should possibly be ashamed at how we as Christians have handled this election that we have just gone through. It seems we depend totally on the Democrats, or the Republicans to take care of us. God will use them but our dependency is on God. He is the one we go to. So we should be ashamed and we should fast and pray earnestly that our God would take care of us and he will hear our prayer. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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