Give God a Reason - Part 1

This is a morning devotion led by Pastor and Digness Boafo from Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. The topic is "Give God a reason" and the reading is from Job 13:14-16. It discusses the importance of being true and sincere worshippers, not relying on what God can provide or the circumstances in our lives. The devotion highlights Job's unwavering faith and trust in God, even in the face of great loss and suffering. It encourages listeners to give God a reason to stand with them by having unconditional and sincere worship. The devotion ends with a prayer for grace to worship sincerely and a reminder to stay tuned for more inspiring content on Radio HCI. Shalom to you all our precious partners and listeners. God richly bless you for joining hands with us in the just ended prayer startup. You are warmly welcome to today's morning glory devotion, being facilitated by Pastor and Digness Boafo. This daily devotion is brought to you by the Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. We believe that your daily efforts in showing up for this devotion will count to your benefits perpetually. Beloved, please let's share a word of prayer. Father, we thank you for another opportunity to look into your ways of life. We ask that you would speak to us and give us understanding and help us fully embrace your word in our daily living. In Jesus mighty name we are praying, Amen and Amen. Beloved, please let's kindly affirm our confession from Joshua chapter 1 verse 8. This book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in it day and night, that I may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous, and then I will have good success, Amen. Beloved, the topic for today's edition is give God a reason. Our test will be taken from Job chapter 13 verses 14 to 16 and I read from the easy English version. If anything happens to me, it will be my mistake, but I do not want to say what I really think. Even if God kills me, I will still believe in him, but I will explain to him the reason why he should not kill me. No bad man would be brave enough to speak with God, so if I speak with him, it will save me. Beloved, the reading of the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Give God a reason. Beloved, have you ever accused God of not attending to your case, or coming in just too late? Has any life situation ever made you feel like doing away with God? How about your daily lifestyle? Is it a reason enough for God to plead your case, stand with you, and for you? It is important for us to know that God sometimes allows us to pass through experimental stages so we can become true and sincere worshippers. Not worshippers whose allegiance is based on what God can provide for them in this life. Not worshippers whose commitment is dependent on the happenings in their lives. But worshippers who are sold out to God as bond servants, offer their lives as living sacrifices to Him, and allowing Him to live and rule in and through them unconditionally. These are the breed of worshippers who give God a reason enough for Him to plead their causes in this life. Consider the case of Job. His unconditional life of worship and integrity was a good enough reason for God to stand with him and for him always. He had a resilient character towards God that no disturbance of life, no loss of possessions, no anxiety of situations, feelings of pain, or a contrary advice from anyone could withstand. Satan got it all wrong when he thought of the reverse equation. He said to God that Job feared Him because He, God, was protecting Job and his possessions, as told in Job chapter 1 verse 9 and 10 and chapter 2 verse 4 and 5. So to Satan, Job's resilient commitment to God was dependent on what God was doing for him. But Job proved this order of the equation wrong. Job feared God and God vouched to protect him. This was evident in his response to all the grave tragedies that Satan pulled on him when God gave him the permission. What happened to Job was like an experiment in the laboratory of Satan, where he subjected him to a character stress testing process from all angles with the intention of breaking down his integrity and setting him against the worship of God. Satan had permission and full access to experiment with the life of Job. But as the scriptures affirm in Job chapter 1 verse 22, in all this, Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. If our dedication to God is based on what we get from Him and on transient reasons that cannot stand when put to the test, we are likely to suffer a character failure under such experimental circumstances. Can you give God enough reason to vouch for you? When God vouched for Job, He had good enough reason to do so. It will be far-fetched to suppose that Job's ten children and all his possessions, including over ten thousand livestock and many servants, just miraculously appeared from nowhere. He must have gone through a normal life process in obtaining and maintaining all of these things, but he lost all of them, all his possessions, in four successive tragedies within a single day. Given the evidence of his resilience, I can't suppose that Job started serving God seriously after obtaining all his possessions. If not, then the loss could have made him rebel against God and denounce Him, as suggested by his wife. But just Job looked beyond the transient possessions to the eternal character of God and said in chapter 13 verse 15, Even if God kills me, I will still believe Him, but I will explain to Him the reason why He should not kill me. In affirming his trust in the eternal plans and purposes of God, Job said in chapter 19 verse 25 through 27, I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that, in the end, He will stand upon the earth. One day I will die and people will bury me in the ground, but in this, my body, I will see God. I will see Him with my own eyes. I really want that to happen soon. Beloved, this is sincere and unconditional worship, what God desires of all of us, and I pray that you and I will be able to attain this end of unconditional and sincere worship before God, in Jesus' mighty name, Amen and Amen. Beloved, please let's take a memory verse together from Job chapter number 13, the verse 15 from the Easy English Bible. He says, Even if God kills me, I will still believe Him, but I will explain to Him the reason why He should not kill me. I'll take it again, Even if God kills me, I will still believe Him, but I will explain to Him the reason why He should not kill me. Beloved, let's share a word of prayer. Father, we thank you this morning for using the example of Job to make us know that we need to be sincere before you and unconditional in our worship on a daily basis, not to focus on what we will get out of you, but rather give you sincere worship all our lives. We pray for the grace to be able to do so in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, Amen and Amen. Precious one, thank you for participating in today's morning glory devotion. There is definitely more of this inspiring content coming your way on Radio HCI today. Please stay tuned so you can enjoy an atmosphere of peace and quietness throughout the day. Shalom and God wish you bless you.