God gets there long before we do

On Sunday a couple came to our meeting, one a Sikh and one a Hindu. Desperately wanting deliverance from tormenting spirits, we prayed in the name of Jesus and told them there could be no complete deliverance whilst there was competition in their lives from the array of gods they were so familiar with and sometimes worshipped; this they readily acknowledged. At the end of our praying, the Sikh, sparkling with inward revelation, quietly but emphatically remarked: ‘if God is for us who can be against us? ‘Why! ‘I said, ‘’do you know that’s written in the Bible? (Romans 8:31)  Again and again, I find, people don’t just pick up truth from what we tell them. God gets there long before we do.

But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him.  But God has, through the Spirit, let us share his secret ……. And the marvellous thing is this, that we now receive not the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God himself, so that we can actually understand something of God’s generosity towards us. 1 Corinthians 2: 9.10,12 J.B. Phillips