Monday, October 22, 2012

Father Does Know Best

My Utmost For His Highest
 
‘The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord, and to nothing else. He cannot witness to our reason. We are inclined to mistake the simplicity that comes from our natural commonsense decisions for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, and to the work of redemption, never to our reason. If we are trying to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit.’ CHAMBERS
 
When is it God and when is it you?  Sometimes it is hard to discern.  James 4:3You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” Do you want God’s best for your life? Or do you want what you think will make your life better?  There is a difference.  Have you ever seen a family where the child was dictating what was done?  When you see that you know that there is something amiss.  There is no way that the child can know what is best … in fact all the child knows is what it wants.
 
So it is with us … we know what we want and we present it to God .. with the expectation that if He is really God, if He really loves us .. He will give us what we want .. and if He doesn’t … well He is not much of a God then is He?  Are you thinking, I would never do that.  I think we all have demanded things of God.
 
Some want God to bless their choices … “I want to live my life the way I want to live it and God should bless me, and will if He is really God”  When Jesus was tempted in the desert He told Satan that you should not tempt God. Matthew 4:5,7Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. […] Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God’
 
So how do you not do those things?  By staying in tune with the Lord … trusting Him and not yourself (Prov 3:5-6) … laying your life .. hopes .. dreams .. desires .. on the altar …seeking Him through His Word …. Doing what He tells you to do even when it is contrary to what you prefer.  That is called walking humbly with God .. walking by faith and not by sight …
 
Living like that is not something you turn on and off like a light switch … it’s not like that $20.00 bill you keep tucked in your wallet or purse for emergencies … it is a way of life …
 
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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