God is in control. All my writing about His being in control of ALL things just won't quit! I will sound like a broken record, but that's because this is the number one truth we must believe. He is our Creator. How could He not know all things? We are admonished to trust Him in all things, even if we don't understand what's happening.
It may be easier said than done when we are hit with a circumstance we have not expected. It may be major or minor. Doesn't matter. Or it may seem easy to trust when things are going smoothly in life. It's when the going gets tough that we are truly tested.
We, again--the broken record--are seeing how this world is turning upside down. People are questioning what's happening. We are trying to find someone to blame, whether it's a nationality, a religious denomination or a leader of a nation. There definitely is a rumbling taking place...at least one I'm aware of. Nothing is as it was in years past but we have no choice but to move forward. Even if the future looks ominous, we have to look forward to it.
I'm reading a book by Don Piper, Heaven is Real. I won't go into specifics about the book but he talks about "new markers" in our lives and how we deal with them. He tells us we cannot keep living in the past. It's over and done and we must move forward. Christians as well need to do this. When we come to a circumstance in our life, how will we handle it? Will we obsess about what times were like before or accept the circumstance, move on and trust that God has a good plan. And that's the issue...trust that He knows what He's doing. If we don't trust, we don't move forward to that thing He has.
God is not surprised by what is happening in the world or in our lives. In fact, no doubt, it's part of His plan. He can use uncomfortable, even outright disastrous circumstances in our lives or in the world to bring about His will. He uses good and bad. I'm convinced the bad comes to open our eyes to change--to get back on the right track. Hah! There's that word "right" I wrote about yesterday.
For Christians that right track is setting our eyes back on Jesus, the Way. As I read Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest this morning he talked about Divine control. He said, "[God] urges us to keep our minds filled with the notion of [His] control behind everything, which means that the disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and to seek." Ask Him "what is it I need to learn in this circumstance?" I've been asking Him that this past week.
The other day I mentioned if God is not in it, it won't happen (July 14). Chambers adds: "Nothing happens in any particular unless God's will is behind it, therefore you can rest in perfect confidence in Him." God may choose to make some changes in each of our lives if they are not part of His plan. That may be one of Piper's "new markers" in our lives. Can we trust Him enough to recognize the marker and then move on?
It's becoming more obvious there's one underlying message--there is a God and we need to learn to trust Him. When we do this, all other things will fall into place in our lives because His hand is on our life--His chastening, His teaching, His love. Hallelujah!
1Samuel 2:6-8 - The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up...For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and He has set the world upon them.
God is not surprised by what is happening in the world or in our lives. In fact, no doubt, it's part of His plan. He can use uncomfortable, even outright disastrous circumstances in our lives or in the world to bring about His will. He uses good and bad. I'm convinced the bad comes to open our eyes to change--to get back on the right track. Hah! There's that word "right" I wrote about yesterday.
For Christians that right track is setting our eyes back on Jesus, the Way. As I read Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest this morning he talked about Divine control. He said, "[God] urges us to keep our minds filled with the notion of [His] control behind everything, which means that the disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and to seek." Ask Him "what is it I need to learn in this circumstance?" I've been asking Him that this past week.
The other day I mentioned if God is not in it, it won't happen (July 14). Chambers adds: "Nothing happens in any particular unless God's will is behind it, therefore you can rest in perfect confidence in Him." God may choose to make some changes in each of our lives if they are not part of His plan. That may be one of Piper's "new markers" in our lives. Can we trust Him enough to recognize the marker and then move on?
It's becoming more obvious there's one underlying message--there is a God and we need to learn to trust Him. When we do this, all other things will fall into place in our lives because His hand is on our life--His chastening, His teaching, His love. Hallelujah!
1Samuel 2:6-8 - The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up...For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and He has set the world upon them.
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