God is assembling a good and perfect plan through the parts and pieces we don’t understand.
Tag: will
Living dead is a stretch for us all, but scripture is clear about the benefits.
Looking back at my unremarkable adventure book experience, I see a metaphor for my walk with God. I still tend to stick to the safe route; the measured, appropriate path. But the real adventure begins when I trust the Lord enough to let go of my personal plot-line and follow along as He reads aloud. There are, in fact, whole pages of faith that we will never turn to unless He is the sole author of our story.
Sin and self mar our every effort. Our short-sightedness interferes with our ability to make sound judgement.
We, too, try to rearrange the hands of God according to our own agenda. Where Jacob truly was aged and unsighted, our God is ageless and omniscient.
We try to give God pointers on how to further His purposes here on earth. (Maybe not you, but it’s a bad habit of mine, for sure!) How quickly we forget, we are unqualified! We are servants, not sovereign.
Though Judas had followed Jesus for years, he still maintained a personal agenda. He helped himself.
When we get in the way of what God is doing, we get in step with the downstairs agenda. We become a blunt tool in the hands of the enemy.
It’s almost comical that the priests and Pharisees and Pilate believed a government seal and a couple hired guards could get in the way of God’s will
I wonder, what if we could see as God sees? If a prophet climbed the hill overlooking our story and got a God-picture, what would it be? I suspect His hopes for us as believers are very much like the Israelites: that we would be a people set apart for His purpose.