The independency of our daily problems on the deeper experience of God

Our daily problems can never be separated from the cause of the problem itself, invariably, most of the circumstances we consider and label problems are but beating into shape as painstakingly done by a goldsmith. Taking the case of the blind man in the gospel whom Jesus Christ replied to the inquisitive words of his apostles, ‘It is not of his own making that the man was born blind but for God’s glory to come to its manifestation’ Flowing from this passage it unveils Gods construction of his children into the quintessence of the elect.
Launching into the escape root of our daily problems, deeper and intimate relationship with our source and goal of our creation will not only allow us the priviledge of grappling the wings and tentacles of these persistent problems challenging us but also lead us safely through the hurdles and excruciating experiences of them all. David’s discovery of the indispensability of a point of contact with the ultimate being led him into the ineffable anxiety of placing blocks on each other forming a formidable wall of God’s dwelling place. Deeper knowledge of God remains within the confines of our daily prayer and meditation on the word of God, cutting through the two relation undermines the link and dependency of them. One then, cannot claim attaining the full conception of the Divine mystery by trudging along one track of the afromentioned relationship. Our daily personal prayer and meditation culminates and caps its meaning in the deeper knowledge of God. Hannah in 1st Samuel chapter 1 concretise our position and pours sand to our ground, she soaked herself in prayer asking for God’s intervention in her situation, her persistence in prayer flows from her deeper knowledge of God’s mathematical formular of operation.
It remains undebateably a fact that our deeper knowledge of God is practicable only through personal prayer and encounter with him in our meditations. Concurrently, fix atleast 10 minutes of your time into your daily programme in a day, and gain limitless facts about God that accelerates our escape race from our daily problem. He reminds us in psalm 91:14-15, the Lord says, ‘I will rescue those who love me, I will protect those who trust in me when they call on me I will answer I will save them in distress, I will rescue them and honour them. Minutes of your time in a day avails you an opportunity of registering your honour to God in your day, definitely he must respond to any of our request as he promised in the above verses.
Personal Prayer leaves us with a zero alternative of inclining to unshakable and unsummountable faith in the divine master. The apostles’ faith stepped up the scale when it came to their knowledge that, they do the same miracles their master also performed, the early Christians in Acts of Apostles vehemently bent on preaching the gospel regardless of the fierce persecution, all these were so much possible becacuse they initially gave themselves in communal prayer (cf Acts 2: 42-47) and it became a spring board to their faith in the Divine master feasible in their unwavy preaching of the gospel.
Finally, my brothers, these problems will continue to arrest, manipulate and fluctuate our life process of experiences only if we subscribe to these three fold relationship of deeper knowledge , prayer and faith in Christ Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith.
Fruit of my meditation on Thursday 19th june,2013 2nd semester retreat.