Monday, August 13, 2007
Think Big
Milt Stanley wonders via Swapblog/Blogwatch if we do not think too much in the short term. Quoting the later
Think about it for just a minute. Remember when you were a child? You did not understand the world around you; you did not necessarily know where you were going or what you were doing, but you knew that when you were with your parents, whatever it was would be fine. You had faith in your parents.
Why do we find it so hard to have that kind of faith in God? Why do we feel like we have to understand, we have to see what is happening. He is after all God, benevolent, loving, and most importantly, good. With Him we should know it will be OK.
Job said: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 13:15) and Isaac trusted his father to the point of allowing him to tie him to an altar.
We do not, in fact we cannot, know all that God has in store for us, but we can know that God Himself is trustworthy. If we take the journey with Him, it will be safe, and it will be good.
Related Tags: trust, faith, short-term, long-term, goodness
We look at our lives, our struggles and our dreams and we want instant results, quick fixes, and millisecond responses. The problem is that our lives are not novellas, but are in fact epic stories. Epic stories are not written in hours or in day. Epics are written over years and decades.God said through Isaiah
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Our walks with God can not be measured in the short term. Remember that due to the actions and issues within their own lives it took a generation for the Israelites to go from Egypt to the promised land. Yet, we want to go from our personal or collective Egypt to our personal / collective promised land in just a few days or weeks. God does not work that way. To help us with this situation though, He is always telling us His plans and providing for His word and work to be successful if we just listen and allow Him too lead.
Isa 55:8-9 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.Our desire for instant results is all about our maintaining control - it's about us wanting to understand - it's about putting our faith somewhere other than in our Lord.
Think about it for just a minute. Remember when you were a child? You did not understand the world around you; you did not necessarily know where you were going or what you were doing, but you knew that when you were with your parents, whatever it was would be fine. You had faith in your parents.
Why do we find it so hard to have that kind of faith in God? Why do we feel like we have to understand, we have to see what is happening. He is after all God, benevolent, loving, and most importantly, good. With Him we should know it will be OK.
Job said: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 13:15) and Isaac trusted his father to the point of allowing him to tie him to an altar.
We do not, in fact we cannot, know all that God has in store for us, but we can know that God Himself is trustworthy. If we take the journey with Him, it will be safe, and it will be good.
Related Tags: trust, faith, short-term, long-term, goodness
