Cause & Effect

The principle of causation is not something we talk about a lot, but it is certainly a part of our everyday life. If I do “this”, then I cause “that” to happen. In just about every activity of life the principle of causation is in play.

There is an app for my phone that is called “IF This Than That” (aka IFTTT) and it’s designed to trigger actions based on another action. For example, I can have my phone turn on lights when I arrive at home. It’s because I’ve connected several things together to happen in a particular sequence or when one thing happens, it triggers another.

The Lord is the Ultimate Cause of things that happen or don’t happen in our world. I do believe that He is the Creator and He can do anything He wishes. I often wish that He would put a stop to all pain and suffering. I also wish He would make our transition into eternity a bit different.

During the time of Elisha, the Lord showed up and showed out. The Aramean army has built a siege against the city of Samaria, the city where the king dwelt. Elisha prophesied that as desperate as people where, this time tomorrow flour and others supplies would be really cheap.  The kings assistant totally doubted this prophet. Check this out….

³ Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. ⁴ “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”

⁵ So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! ⁶ For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another. ⁷ So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives. (2 Kings 7:3-7 NLT)

I pray to the Lord because I believe He can change things.

I pray to the Lord because I know He can change me – He has on multiple occasions.

I pray to the Lord because His promises are true.

I believe the Lord can still create. I believe the Lord is totally in charge of causation.

I want to grow in my trust of the Lord and His Presence in my life. I want to grow in my trust of the Lord’s ability to change the laws of nature to His will and His way.  My trust in the Lord’s ability expands as I trust Him with the smallest insignificant events of my life.

Pressing On!

Dwayne