Rev. E. Anderson
PROSPECT is different from retrospect and inspect. The first refers mainly to a looking backward, the second to a certain extent to a looking within, whilst prospect implies a looking without and ahead. It possesses a mental outlook that views that which is before that is of an encouraging nature. There is a gathering within something of a positive quality that entertains a vision of glorious things that are to be wonderfully realised.
When a person connects with God it seems that somehow God chooses to fill such with golden prospects. In viewing the many individuals that adorn the Bible, they received from God beautiful guarantees respecting their lives and mission as they forged a bond with Him. Such is a fascinating and inspiring study.
In calling Abraham at 75 years of age He immediately filled him with certain prospects and this great man was prepared to accept and go for what God offered – Genesis 12: 1-4. After Abraham had proved his faith and loyalty to the Lord in a great act of obedience, the Lord gave him an enormous promise that was full of prospect. He said: ‘That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore’ – Genesis 22: 17. The old patriarch knew that both he and his seed was assured of an incredible future.
God gave a young man a dream that was filled with immense expectations and he was prepared to receive and believe it – see Genesis 37: 5-11. The dream filled his mind, heart and prospects and there was no way that he was going to let it go in spite of all the negative and destructive things that took place in his life. They lit up his being and he would not allow them to be extinguished over the years. What God gave him to view in those earliest moments of his life He brought to pass to total realisation?
Moses was an individual who appeared to have his prospects dashed and ruined. Although he seemed to have a favourable start, things went haywire and he finished a non-entity and merely a shepherd looking after sheep in the backside of the desert. But God broke upon his scene and generated immense prospects for himself and the people of God – Exodus 3. Instead of looking after a little flock of sheep for the rest of his days he is summoned to deliver a people from slavery with a unique deliverance and guide them to the Promised Land of Canaan.
A young lad was assured that he would be a king one day, the Lord making clear to him that he was to be the future monarch of Israel in a significant fashion – 1 Samuel 16. Although he also had to go through a series of testing and trial yet he sees those early prospects come to maturity in God’s time.
Paul makes it abundantly known to those who are relationship with God that the future is altogether bright and full of prospect; therefore every believer can have hope and be filled with a keen sense of anticipation. He says: ‘But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him’ – 1 Corinthians 2: 9. We can agree with D.L. Moody when he said: ‘God never made a promise that was too good to be true’.
God would fill your life with prospect today for the whole of this week and all your future. What He has significantly done for others in the past, be reminded He is ever in the present and future and up to both. Line yourself up with Him now in spiritual accord and let Him fill you with His vision for your life here and now, and eternally.
‘Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul’ - Anonymous
PRAYER
Lord, help me to possess a clear vision of the prospects you have in mind for me and aid me in accomplishing all for your glory. Amen
