God Never Fails

Meditations for Seeking the Life in Christ

Daily Thoughts 

January 6, 2025

God Never Fails

But now, since you didn’t believe what I said, you will be silent and unable to speak until the child is born. For my words will certainly be fulfilled at the proper time.”

Luke 1:20

Read Luke 1:8-20

Scholars believe the Gospel of Luke was written between 60 and 70 A.D. I find it interesting that even after sixty years, the story of Zachariah’s response to Gabriel was still being told. There was no effort to make Zachariah look better by hiding his unbelief. This is important to me because it affirms that God chooses to work through real people. God did not call Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu because she was saintly. He called her because he knew that as she trusted God with her whole life, the world would come to know her as Mother Teresa.

Zachariah’s story also affirms to me that God requires accountability from His followers. Zachariah had been a follower of God for many years, but he almost missed God’s greatest blessing. Through Zachariah and Elizabeth, God was preparing the way for his Messiah, and he was not going to be denied. However, after being struck mute by Gabriel, Zachariah was pretty much reduced to a bystander for nine months, as he could no longer perform his priestly duties in the Temple.

My Takeaway: God has a plan of redemption for the world, and all the followers of Jesus have a role to play in God’s plan. I cringe at the thought of the assignments I have missed, the good deeds I have left undone. As I am comforted that God never fails, that He will not be denied, on this Day of Epiphany, I pray Jesus will be made so manifest in me I will not leave his assignments for me undone.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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