Thread by @harrydaniyan

GOD HIMSELF WILL DO IT
(1st Peter 5:10)

My work colleague & I were invited to a wedding last Saturday: the son of our Chairman (a retired military officer & a Senator of the Federal Republic) was getting married.

Something interesting caught my attention at the reception...
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The MC invited some folks to the High Table, one of which was the Chairman of the reception, an ex-governor.
He was absent!
But he sent a representative.

I started wondering:
Why didn’t the ex-governor come?
Why send a representative...?
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I concluded he either had another engagement that was more important to him than attending the reception.
Or the reception wasn't that important to him.

Whatever his reason for not coming was, he delegated someone else to represent him at the reception...
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About 25 years ago, I was the Church Administrator of Rhema Chapel, Abeokuta Ogun State.
We invited Rev’d Sam Adeyemi as the guest speaker for a program.
He couldn't make it, he sent a representative.
We hosted the representative, but deep down, we wished Rev’d Sam came...!
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The representative is never as appreciated as the main person!
We had ushers with garlands waiting for the vehicle bringing him to come in.
They were instructed to hang the garlands on Rev'd Sam's neck when he arrived.
The car drove in & the ushers rushed towards it...
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Door opened, it was not Rev’d Sam!
The ushers were confused!
Should we hang these garlands on this guy?
But he’s not Rev’d Sam!
We the Church leaders were as confused as them!
There is always that confusion how to treat a representative:
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Should you give him the same treatment you had planned for the person he is representing?
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Imagine you invite Goodluck Jonathan to your wedding & he has to spend a night in town. You'll make plans to accommodate him in a Presidential Suite in a 5 Star Hotel...
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But if he can’t make it & sends Reno Omokri to represent him, you’ll probably put him in one dingy hotel infested with rats & cockroaches!
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My point is, the representative does not always carry same clout as the person he is representing...
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Now, God also sends representatives sometimes.
And there are some cases He handles himself.
Those things are VERY IMPORTANT to Him: they cannot be delegated to representatives.

Going through the Scriptures, I noticed this trend...
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“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…”- Genesis 2:8
God planted this garden HIMSELF. It was that important to Him.

“And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman…”- Genesis 2:22
God PERSONALLY carried out this surgery.
He didn't delegate it.

“And Moses the servant of the Lord died… & He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab…”- Deuteronomy 34:5-6.
Imagine that! God buried Moses! Imagine God scooping out the soil & placing Moses' body in the ground & back-filling it Himself...
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God also personally wrote the 10 Commandments on those 2 slabs for Moses. (Exodus 32: 15-16). GOD WROTE THEM WITH HIS HANDWRITING! He could have simply said, “Hey, Michael! Go write these 10 Commandments on those stone slabs for Moses!”
But He didn’t: He wrote them Himself...
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In chapter 18 of the Book of Genesis, God personally came to talk to Abram on 2 issues: the birth of his son Isaac & the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah.
I imagine God sitting with Abram, talking as buddies! That was the exact scenario painted in that chapter...
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The birth of Isaac & the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah were that important to Him, He had to come give the information to Abram Himself.
I notice these seemingly little & insignificant things.
And I come to the conclusion there are some things God handles Himself.
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No P.A can handle them for Him, no Angel, Senior Special Assistant, Minister, Chief of Staff or Secretary to Government can handle them as effectively as Him, so He does not bother delegating.

But there are other places in scripture God sent representatives...
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“O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee & stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent…”- Daniel 10:11

Daniel had been praying & after some days an angel came to him.
Notice what the angel said: “I was SENT”!
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God sent him to go answer Daniel’s prayer. God did not come Himself; there probably was something more important to do in that moment.

“And in the 6th month, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin… Mary”- Luke 1:26-27
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In this case, God did not go meet Mary Himself: He sent a representative, Angel Gabriel.

I am wont to see the things God does Himself as very, VERY important to Him: that is the mindset I read the scriptures with:
What does God handle Himself, what does He delegate...?
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Now, I read in 1st Peter 5:10 “But after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who calls you to share His eternal glory in union with Christ will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.”
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In other words, your restoration, confirmation, strength & establishment are too important to God for Him to delegate them to a representative!

HE WILL DO THESE THINGS HIMSELF!
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He will PERSONALLY restore you.
He will PERSONALLY confirm you.
He will PERSONALLY strengthen you.
He will PERSONALLY establish you.
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If you really KNOW this, you will worry less about your situation & circumstance.
You will worry less about your suffering- it is for a little while.
You will be more excited about your future. You know why? BECAUSE GOD IS PERSONALLY INTERESTED IN IT!
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He said, “I alone know (you may be ignorant of it, it doesn’t matter!) the plans I have for you, plans to bring you to prosperity & not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for”- Jeremiah 29:11
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Don’t let your ignorance of what He is doing weigh you down, people!
God is at work to make your life turn out right:
He is PERSONALLY committed to it!

Shalom!
Haruna Daniels.
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