“Holy Assumptions”

When my daughter was growing up (pray for her and bless her, she turned 18 years this week and she is a good girl!), I listened closely to her Nursery Rhymes. A number of them were deeply worrying because they taught fatalities. “London Bridge is falling down” was one, “Solomon Grundy” was another. One of the worst was one of the most popular:

Row, Row, Row your boat,

Gently down the stream,

Merrily Merrily, Merrily, Merrily

Life is but a DREAM”

(NOTE: In this song above is the core Hindu concept that life is an Illusion - Maya. This is completely anti-Christian, and anti- Hebraic thinking. Life for the Christian is NOT MAYA. The life of a Christian has substance, the substance is not ONLY material, it is not JUST consistent, IT IS CONSISTENTLY ETERNAL).

But back to the Songs, these Songs taught children fatalities.

I refer to these because I want us to think about a passage today. The Ruler in Mt 9:18 obviously did not go to a Modern Nursery school. His assumptions defied modern realities and rejected death. The Ruler said:

“…My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

What kind of faith makes a man to look at a child who has stopped breathing, a child who is certified DEAD, and still say “…she shall live!” What kind of assumption makes a man to reject the obvious, refuse the visible, challenge the inevitable; and receive the impossible? What kind of inner assumptions creates such logic?

It is the assumption that has ingrained in him a clear understanding of the God of Abraham. This is the “God of the Living and not the Dead” The scriptures said Abraham did not look at his body that was dead when he believed God for the gift of a Son. He did not look at Sarah’s realities; he looked only at the capacity of God who promised to give LIFE.

It is an Assumption like Daniel’s that believes that life in the Oven and the Lion’s Den is better than life as a person who has denounced Jehovah. It is an assumption that Jehovah has power to remove the Sting of Fire, to destroy the power of death.

God wants us to check our assumptions today. Proper assumptions create the internal environment for MIRACLES from the hands of God. The sick are still healed today, the dead are being raised today; but the witnesses to power are people who believe internally that “With God, all things are possible!”