History Changing Decision

 History Changing Decision

Changes in communication, transportation, the practice and delivery of medicine, availability of higher education, the whole world of entertainment, and all things else have drastically changed our lives, mostly over the last 80 years.

But nothing has altered the history of the entire world like the decision of a mother—operating without benefit of conveniences of any sort, confined to maintaining a household in a tent, caring for three sons, with a fourth child on the way, unappreciated and little loved by her husband, did the unthinkable.  She did something not previously done in the human race and fundamentally altered everything else that would follow.  With the birth of that fourth child, a son, she said, “Now I will praise the Lord” and called the name of that son “Judah”(literally, “Praise”.)  See Genesis Chapter 29.

Incredibly, this had never been done before, for a person out of the depths of heartache, frustration, and disappointment to shift one’s gaze from the immediate and surrounding circumstance and take a leap into the spirit realm, indeed the supernatural, and say “I will praise the Lord!”  That made all the difference.

That son, Judah, would become the lead tribe of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, shepherding the way into the Tabernacle (wherein was the presence of Jehovah God), producing Israel’s greatest king, King David, and ultimately, from the human side, the King of kings, the Lord of all history, even Jesus Christ.

Today when you elect to shift your gaze from the most hurtful, depressing, frustrating and fruitless circumstance and shift it heavenward saying with a sincere heart, “Praise the Lord”, you join special company and open the way for the Lord to come in and redeem you and your circumstance.  See I Thessalonians 5:16-18.