Heaven Land Devotions - Christ Our Over-Master

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There came a time in King David's life where he sinned against God by numbering all the warring men in Israel. God had always given him great victories and now pride had entered into his heart. Joab the general of the armies of Israel went along with the captains who strongly opposed this decision and counseled against doing so. However King David went ahead with it.

When Joab returned with the exact count of all the warring men David's heart was smitten within him by a great conviction. He prayed to God confessing this great sin. Then Gad his seer came in and offered him to choose one of three judgments from God. He chose the three days of pestilence. At the end of the three days seventy-thousand men died. David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord with his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. He heard the voice of the Lord commanding the angel of the Lord to stop.

Then David prayed to God the second time. "And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly." After this he was told by Gad to offer unto God sacrifices in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. But David had nothing with him to offer, so Araunah offered to give him the land and the animals. David turned it all down.

"The king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver."

David saw something he never saw before, something from the "other world" and it changed him, and that is why he did not want to offer God anything that did not have premium cost.

Nicodemus did the same thing. He was a master of Israel who came to Jesus by night. Later on he came to Pontius Pilate by day boldly with Joseph of Arimathea "craving the body of Jesus." It cost Nicodemus something. He was from that point no longer a master of Israel. Jesus became his Over-Master."

Is your walk in Christ costing you something priceless and costly to give Him? When your eyes are open by the Spirit of revelation of Him, everything changes and you only want to give Him what costs you everything. Is Christ truly your Over-Master? Go to Him and ask Him just like Nicodemus did. He is waiting for you...."even now."

"God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give."

~Charles Spurgeon