God is purposeful. He has explanations behind permitting this recession in Nigeria. Doubtlessly He has numerous reasons, however without a doubt one of His essential objectives is the spiritual growth of his people. If we miss what He needs to show us, we will just get to be skeptical and start to uncertainty His affection and care.
The first lesson is the most self-evident: He needs us to discover
that He is with us amid prosperity as well as in times of adversity. At the point when there was starvation in the land and Isaac was enticed to take after other people to Egypt, God appeared to him and said, "Don't go down into Egypt; live in the land where I instruct you to live… and I will be with you and will favor you" (Genesis 26:2-3). God guaranteed to bring him through the famine rather than offer him escape from it.
Second, Joseph took in a comparable lesson. We read that God was with him when he was lifted up in Egypt; we additionally read that God was with him when he was unjustifiably denounced and tossed into jail (Genesis 39:2, 20-21). God is with us in success and neediness; He is with us when we can pay our home loan and when we can't.
John Piper once said during recession, "God plans to uncover hidden sin thus convey us to atonement and purging." Because money makes almost all the same guarantees as God, it lures us with the guarantee that it will be there for us in affliction and in wellbeing, in great times and terrible. No one but adversity can uncover our false loves and keep us from hidden idolatry.
Third, God needs us to go into the experience of believers around the globe who have known only recession of the most exceedingly bad conceivable kind. A large portion of the world battles for its day by day nourishment; thousands—yes thousands—of kids bite the dust every day of ailing health. A large number of Christians live in nations where there is suppression, abuse, and no emotionally supportive network in times of emergency. The greater part of us have lost the better a portion of our retirement pay however regardless we have nourishment on the table and a spot to rest around evening time. Let us begin to empathize and pray for our brothers and sisters who are living in squalor, with little hope of life as we know it to be.
At long last, God is showing us how to love and care all the more profoundly. We can no more live in our homes and be without sympathy about the individuals who have lost their employments. Families are figuring out how to "bend over" and live with each other as houses dispossess, and employments are lost.
This is also time for us to expose the folly of those preachers who tell us that God wants everyone rich without trying times, and that if we only had faith we would all be enjoying the bounties of life because we are “King’s son.” Yes, we are King’s son, but that doesn’t mean we are promised financial prosperity without trying times—only that God will grant us the grace to endure whatever deprivations come our way.
The God who told Isaac to stay in the land of famine, is the same God who assures us that we can face an uncertain future with confidence and joy. Remember also that the flood that destroyed the whole world was the one that Elevated Noah and His family. Watch out its your season of Elevation.
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