Y Tuesday, October 14, 2008Y
4:46 pm
ConiesThe conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks.
Proverbs 30:26 AMP
A coney looks like a rabbit but he can't run like one. He resembles a mole but he can't dig deep like one. So he moves to higher ground and positions himself in rocks, in a place of strength.
What's the message of the coney? Reposition yourself! How? (1) By realising who you are in Christ. When you accepted Jesus as your Saviour, your status in God's eyes changed completely. You're no longer an outsider but a fully accepted member of God's redeemed family, with direct access to your Heavenly Father and all the rights and privileges that go with it. Knowing that allows you to operate from a place of strength and not weakness, faith and not fear. When that happens you begin to pray for more, believe God for more, and enjoy more of His blessings. (2) By recognising that your limitations don't limit God. Who does God use? "Feeble folk" (v.26 AMP). How? By putting them in positions of strength. Sometimes that means putting extra support around them. When you have a bad leg, you don't put the brace on your good leg, you put it on the feeble one. And if He has to, God will put braces on you and get you there ahead of the people who sit around complacent and complaining.
"Feeble folk" praise God differently! Others praise Him because they have a feeling of entitlement, but not conies; they remember where they were when God found them and what He brought them through, and they say, "If it had not been the Lord who was on our side" (Psalm 124:1).