I often think of how silly it is for me to dance around God's plan. Using my own power and strength to try and work things out differently than how they seem like they will play out. What a pleasure it is, to watch piece by piece as God uses things to fit into His big picture, and how naive to think that if I slightly move one piece around, it will change God's incredible plan. Something so sweet and simple, that I have learned is that no matter how much I try, His plan always reigns, it never fails.
One of the greatest realizations to me, is that God can make anything happen, anyway that He so desires to. Doesn't matter the time, doesn't matter the challenge, He can do it, and does do it. I think so habitually we speak the words "God can make it happen," but I think we rarely believe it with our hearts. How easy it is to confuse believing in our mind and believing in our heart.
God can make it happen. It could literally be anything.
I love this verse, Ecclesiastes 9:11, the NIV version says "I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all."
Then also read it in the NLT version, "I have observed something else in this world of ours. The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle. The wise are often poor, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being at the right place at the right time."
We literally have no clue how God is going to make things happen, so why on earth would we try to change them and make them the way we want them. Because the truth is, that God will always make things happen and use His endless power to make His plan a reality in our lives. He reigns.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Mashed Potatoes
Place it in my hands. That command requires the person in whom is holding that something to not only give up that something, but give up the control of that something, and give the control over to the other person. It's a bigger concept than it simply sounds.
I, just like many, I am sure, like to hold onto things. They are my issues, crisis, dilemmas, burdens, and I don't want anyone else to have to deal with them. I like to hold it all in... the problem is, that sometimes it doesn't all fit. Sometimes I'm like a tupperware container full of mashed potatoes that has a little bit too much stuffed in there, and when you try to put the container top on, they just spill over. "Gross", that's how the seeping mashed potatoes appear. I'm sure that's also how I appear when I start taking all my anger, frustration, and stress of all that stuff that I'm holding onto inside, out on the people around me. The reality that I, and again so many others I am sure, fail to remember is that we aren't created to hold all of that in ourselves.
"And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work." 2 Corinthians 9:8 He is a b l e.
"Cast all of your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7 He c a r e s.
Someone taught me something a while ago, that I will never forget. It's that if you don't let others help you from time to time, you are robbing them the opportunity to serve you. The same analogy but on a much higher scale, is that if we hold onto all of our stuff, whatever it may be, we are cheapening the gift of Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus died on the cross, taking on all of the sin of the world, willingly. That's including the stuff that we're holding onto. Take advantage and rest in the blessing of being able to give it all to Him, because not only does He allow us to, but He wants us to. Place your stuff in His hands... and don't overstuff your tupperware.
I, just like many, I am sure, like to hold onto things. They are my issues, crisis, dilemmas, burdens, and I don't want anyone else to have to deal with them. I like to hold it all in... the problem is, that sometimes it doesn't all fit. Sometimes I'm like a tupperware container full of mashed potatoes that has a little bit too much stuffed in there, and when you try to put the container top on, they just spill over. "Gross", that's how the seeping mashed potatoes appear. I'm sure that's also how I appear when I start taking all my anger, frustration, and stress of all that stuff that I'm holding onto inside, out on the people around me. The reality that I, and again so many others I am sure, fail to remember is that we aren't created to hold all of that in ourselves.
"And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work." 2 Corinthians 9:8 He is a b l e.
"Cast all of your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7 He c a r e s.
Someone taught me something a while ago, that I will never forget. It's that if you don't let others help you from time to time, you are robbing them the opportunity to serve you. The same analogy but on a much higher scale, is that if we hold onto all of our stuff, whatever it may be, we are cheapening the gift of Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus died on the cross, taking on all of the sin of the world, willingly. That's including the stuff that we're holding onto. Take advantage and rest in the blessing of being able to give it all to Him, because not only does He allow us to, but He wants us to. Place your stuff in His hands... and don't overstuff your tupperware.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Unfathomable Truth
"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mothers womb, so you cannot understand the work of God."
~Ecclesiastes 11:5
There is a truth, a truth which is unfathomable. As hard as I try, I cannot comprehend the measures of love which reaches in order to fulfill this truth. But if I did, there would be no need for such a truth. It would be just like any other, nothing special. Instead it is the highest most valued truth anyone could know, because it is impossible for us to grasp. There is a sweet complexity in the simplicity of truth I know so well. It's a sweet, sweet reality.
~Ecclesiastes 11:5
There is a truth, a truth which is unfathomable. As hard as I try, I cannot comprehend the measures of love which reaches in order to fulfill this truth. But if I did, there would be no need for such a truth. It would be just like any other, nothing special. Instead it is the highest most valued truth anyone could know, because it is impossible for us to grasp. There is a sweet complexity in the simplicity of truth I know so well. It's a sweet, sweet reality.
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