All Are His Servants
by Ray Prinzing

"Praise ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him, all His hosts. - Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling His word."                                                 (Psalm 148:2,8)

Not only shall God have His appointed servants to do His bidding for His people collectively, but also individually, God has His instruments through whom He works to bring salvation to His elect.  And in our purifyings, in our perfecting process, He has laid hold of many strange servants for the task.  We might be prone to question how this "servant" could ever do us any good, but just let God anoint what He wants for the purpose, the end is secure - overcomers that stand before him to His praise and glory.

Fire, hail, snow, vapours, stormy wind - servants of HIS fulfilling His Word.  Often we have heard that it was the "devil" that was stirring things up causing so much disturbance.  We were told that "the prince of the power of the air" caused much of this agitation in the elements.  But these are God's servants, they are fulfilling His Word, and regardless of what lesser forces are involved, or how negative they appear, God is still in control over all, and all must ultimately fulfill His determined council and plan.

We are not serving two Gods, a God for good, and a god for evil.  We are not on the receiving end of two sources, a Giver of good, and a dispenser of evil.  If it is a blessing today we give the credit to the Lord, but if it suddenly changes and does us evil, then the devil must have a hand in it.  Next, trouble seems to be piling up and we know the devil is behind the whole thing, except that somehow it works into good, so the Lord must have been in it after all.  What kind of double-mindedness is this?

When we begin to receive all things as from God's hand, even though others might have intended it for evil, you know that "God meant it for good,"  (Genesis 50:20), then there is a peace within, a rest in God which this world can neither give, nor take away.  We will not resist the circumstance, nor fight the condition, for we know God has arranged for it to work for us, for good.  All are His servants! Praise ye the Lord!