Oh, how we hate interference! Everyone enjoys having his own way without any check or hindrance. Still, in this present era of huge populations and much legislation, nobody goes very far without being pulled up and checked in innumerable directions. We do not like it, but we have to endure it.
During the Great War some people seemed to feel that God should interfere on the side they favored. They would have liked for Him to interfere in their way. But God says: "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." Isa. 55:8, 98For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8‑9).
A Russian leader who once attained a transient notoriety declared: "The Communist party cannot tolerate interference by God in these critical moments! For candidates who hesitate to renounce God we have no room.”
Is God and His ways, His interference, then a thing to be always dreaded? Oh, no. Many of us bear witness that His interventions in our lives have brought greatest blessing. God loves to interfere in grace, for it is only by His grace that He can show mercy to a God-hating world.
Thus it was with George Mason of Winchester, England. 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, and from his earliest years he found his companionship among infidels. They sometimes discussed the Bible verse by verse, but it was only that they might make it the subject of ridicule. So George grew to manhood with no faith in God, no anchor for his soul. His own will was his god.
When George entered the army during the terrible years of the "blitz," he resented violently any interference with his own ongoing; and in a black mood of rebellion against authority, he shot and killed an army sergeant. When George was sentenced to death for this murder, he cursed the judge from the dock. Now George's life was about to end and a lost eternity seemed to be before him. BUT GOD INTERFERED.
Shortly after conviction George was soundly converted to the God whom he had hated. To the prison chaplain whom God had used to turn the young man's heart, 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.”
To the clergyman who accompanied him to the scaffold George gave this message: "I thank you for your kindness to me, a condemned criminal. Please use the story of my life to help others to the right road. He whom you have visited has been an atheist and a murderer; but now, by the blessed interference of God in grace, he is a penitent, and a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
This was an extreme case, but GOD INTERFERED AND SAVED HIS SOUL!
More than nineteen centuries ago one Saul was born at Tarsus in Asia Minor. He was no 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 posthaste to Damascus to seek to capture all 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 that was indescribable. 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 Tim. 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.
Dear reader, an hour of divine interference rapidly approaches for everyone of us. The world grows old and weary in sin; but it is still "the acceptable year of the Lord." Soon will come "the day of vengeance of our God." How can you face that day unless you receive in this day the salvation He freely offers through faith in the precious blood of Christ?