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Thursday Aug 01, 2019
Thursday Aug 01, 2019
8-1-19 Thursday
God is consistent- but unpredictable. there is absolutely no security in what God is doing, only in who he is!
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What a great week. I had the opportunity to pray for a woman at the gym and her leg was healed, she told her friend who the next day asked me to pray for her back… I told her where…
and I am excited to go and preach in a few more places coming up and excited to see what God will do!
Isaiah 55:8, 9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Not trusting can create a lot of pain internally and emotionally… we think we should have the right to understand Gods ways.
But sometimes guilt sneaks in… we should not feel this way, at least not as a Christian… so we become passive.
Passivity is a great way to neutralize pain but a lousy way to maximize ones potential! Acknowledge your pain, acknowledge your lack of understanding and take it to the cross and leave it for Jesus. Then Jesus becomes your potential!
God does not owe us any explanation for any thing that happens in our life…why? Because he is mean, vindictive? No, because he has everything under his control and he wants us to understand we don’t have to understand in order to trust him.
It takes a step of humility to relinquish our control and realize we are not God… we do not understand the way God does. We do not have the right to play God.
I was sitting in a meeting with a few other pastors yesterday and we all have struggling churches. We all have financial needs and pressures, we all are trying to serve God and the community and reach out to the cities we live in and we all have churches that seem a little less than committed to the cause of Christ. AND NONE OF US UNDERSTAND WHY. I can tell you honestly we are all doing our best and serving God with all our hearts. We are all good preachers and we all seek God and pray… but nothing is happening.
We all have come to the conclusion, that Gods ways are not our ways. And maybe its more about what is done in me then what is done in the church… and maybe not - but that’s up to God and He may never tell me why… and I am ok with that.
When you look at things that just don’t make sense in scripture:
Jesus was born in a manger, full and overflowing with animals. No room for guests let alone their animals. Manure abounded and into this a child was born. Born into a world of manure… indicative of what he was truly born in to.
He is raised without a father most of his life.
His brothers and sisters reject him.
He picks out the most oddball disciples you could ever imagine.
He chooses the one who will betray him… oh yea and he puts him (a thief) in charge of the money.
He breaks cultural rules, social rules… i.e. He talks to women and even teaches them. He talks to the tax collector and befriends him… like Billy Graham befriending the head of the mafia.
He works on the sabbath and even encourages his disciples to do also.
He accepts prostitutes and children over the elite religious people of the day.
He tells people to follow him…and then when he casts out the demons from the man in the tombs the man begs to follow him and he says no… stay here and tell everyone about me.
Jesus is the most unpredictable, unsafe, and yet secure and loving God we could ever serve.
I could make a whole other list of oddities in the life of Paul, Peter, John… just about every person in the bible.
Now take a look at your life: what does not seem to make sense?
I encourage you to let it go. Don’t try to figure it out.
If you see obvious things that you need to change then by all means change.
But if there are things that you just don’t understand and often question God about regarding work, children, marriage, circumstances etc… trust that God’s ways are beyond your ways!
I will close up with one of my favorite lines from C.S. Lewis book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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