Oh, how we hate interference! Everyone enjoys having his own way without any check or hindrance. But nobody goes very far without being pulled up and checked in this present era of huge populations and much legislation. We do not like it, but we have to endure it.
Then, some people seem to feel that God should interfere on the things they favor. They would like for Him to interfere in their way.
A communist leader once declared: "The Communist party cannot tolerate interference by God in these critical moments! For candidates who hesitate to renounce God we have no room." He resented interference and even dared to defy God.
Are God and His ways, His interference, things to be always dreaded? Oh, no. Many of us bear witness that His interventions in our lives have brought great blessing. God loves to interfere in grace, for it is only by His grace that He can show mercy to a God-hating world.
That is how it was with George Mason. At the early age of eight years George lost his mother, the only tender influence in his life. His father brought him up as an atheist.
When George entered the army, he resented violently any interference with his own way; and in a black mood of rebellion against authority, he shot and killed an army sergeant. George was sentenced to death for this murder, and when his life was about to end, and a lost eternity seemed to be before him, GOD INTERFERED.
God used the prison chaplain to turn the young man's heart. George was soundly converted to the God whom he had hated. He said: "I never knew what happiness or kindness was until I came here and heard of the great love of God to poor, lost sinners. Please use the story of my life to help others."
This was an extreme case, but GOD INTERFERED AND SAVED HIS SOUL!
More than nineteen hundred years ago, one Saul, who became Paul the apostle, was born at Tarsus in Asia Minor. He was not atheist! Rather, he was fanatically religious. Yet no greater opponent of Christ ever lived, and his hatred was vented on His humble followers. As the leader of a whirlwind crusade against Christians, Saul was riding to Damascus to seek to capture believers in Jesus. BUT GOD INTERFERED!
While he was on the way, Saul saw the very Christ whom he hated in a blaze of heavenly glory. The effect was instantaneous and revolutionary. He who had been "a blasphemer and a persecutor, and injurious," obtained divine mercy and could now say: "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." 1 Timothy 1:1515This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. (1 Timothy 1:15).
Friend, has God interfered thus in your life? Do not resent it, but welcome it. It is the hand of love that interferes. Let that love reach your heart, and your life will be transformed.
An hour of divine interference rapidly approaches everyone of us. Those who are true believers will go to be with Him, their sins forgiven. Accept Him now while it is still "the acceptable year of the Lord."