Is There Not A Cause?

David once asked, “Is there not a cause?” Well, Moses brings a “cause before the LORD.”

A “cause” is a “case” or an action to bring something into effect. It is the reason, motivation, or urge that moves or impels the mind or body into action. It is something that one or more parties pursue together in an effort to bring about a desired result.

If you ever have a cause or know of someone who does, then the pattern of scripture dictates that you bring it before the LORD and wait for his answer. The “cause” of these daughters of Zelophehad was so important to the LORD that he gave them two chapters (27 & 36) to resolve the cause of their inheritance.

We should never underestimate the “causes” in our life that might interest God, and we should never dismiss another’s “cause” as being too insignificant for God to handle or be interested in hearing. Just because one may not see your cause as a “giant” one doesn’t mean God isn’t interested in hearing about it and defeating it on your behalf.

Within these next verses, we find not only a “cause” to champion for others and ourselves, but we also find a “cause” that God has for our lives as Christians. There are “causes” that God allows in our life so that he may “cause” us to “walk worthy of the Lord,” “increase in the knowledge of God,” be “strengthened with all might,” and learn “patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.”

Colossians 1:9 - For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
1:10 - That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1:11 - Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;