Day 2: The Purpose of Visitation by God #21 Day Purity Challenge

God speaks to his people in many ways. He speaks through dreams, visions, impressions, other people, his creation, and numerable other ways.

David says in Psalm 8:3-4, “When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?”

In other words, why would God who is Lord over all creation, consider man or care for us the way He does? He is so wonderful and powerful but comes down from Heaven to speak and visit with man.

Knowing the nature of God, He is very intentional. There has to be a purpose in this.

Let’s read Deuteronomy 4:32-38:

“Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported? Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived? Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes? You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him. He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire. Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power, to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.”

God shows us his wonders to reveal who He is to us. He displays His power so that man knows He is real and is watching over us. He lets us hear His voice to discipline us and He choses us because He loves us and made a covenant with our forefathers to bless us.

Solomon was a man born into the house of David, and had a father who loved God and was a man after God’s heart. He had a good example before him and also was left a physical and spiritual inheritance. It was up to Solomon to continue in the commandments of the Lord to see the heart of David passed on to the next generation.

Solomon started his reign as king well, but was led astray by his affections for foreign women. Eventually, he went after false gods and built altars to the gods of his foreign wives.

Was God aware of this? Did He intervene?

1 Kings 11:9-10 says, “Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.”

So, even though God was aware, he didn’t force Solomon to do anything. He warned Solomon, but Solomon did not heed to the warnings, so Solomon had to suffer the consequences of that.

How is God speaking to you? Have you made the adjustments God is asking?

God loves us and wants us to dwell in the land in peace, but we must follow His commands completely and heed his warnings.

To do this, we must meditate on His word day and night. We have to watch and pray, cast down every imagination that tries to exalt itself above the knowledge of God and bring every thought captive into the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Job 33:12b-18

“12…God is greater than man.

13Why do you complain to Him

that He answers nothing a man asks?

14For God speaks in one way and in another,

yet no one notices.

15In a dream,

in a vision in the night,

when deep sleep falls upon men

as they slumber on their beds,

16He opens their ears

and terrifies them with warnings

17to turn a man from wrongdoing

and keep him from pride,

18to preserve his soul from the Pit

and his life from perishing by the sword.”