FOR THOSE WHO LIKE IT SHORTER


FOR THOSE WHO LIKE IT SHORTER

                I am grabbing this excerpt from my recent article on the sovereignty of God. I feel that the Holy Spirit was giving me some important thoughts on faith that should not be buried by a longer article. In this passage the Lord was teaching us the difference between faith and fatalism. In fatalism we sit and wait for God to do something… but in real faith we must actively engage with God in all that He offers. For instance, the Word of God is there for everyone to see, but it only benefits those who read it and apply its principles to their lives.  So it is with all of the attributes of God.

                If we want to benefit from the immediate presence of God we need to engage with Him by faith. Air is everywhere but it only benefits those who breathe. Water is everywhere but it only benefits those who drink. Soil is everywhere but it only benefits those who plant seed. God’s promises are everywhere, but they only benefit those who claim them.  Salvation is everywhere available, but it only benefits those that receive it. Prayer is available to everyone, but it only benefits those who pray. Jesus is the Way, but it only benefits those who walk in it. He is the Truth, but it only benefits those who believe it. He is the Life, but it only benefits those who live it. 

                So God is sovereign and everything He does He is doing all the time.  He doesn’t wake up in the morning and remember to turn on the sun. The sun is shining all the time even though we experience both day and night.

                Likewise God’s grace and mercy and all of His promises are flowing all the time and we, by faith engage in and receive those things that would otherwise pass us by. “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 In other words, the invisible attributes of God are flowing by us all the time, but faith reaches out and grabs them.

                James 1:5 says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God”…Well… why do we need to ask? If God wants to give us wisdom why doesn’t He just do it? There is a good reason why. It is because as     1 Cor. 3: 19 says, “The wisdom of this world is foolishness before God…”And Romans 1:22 says, “Professing to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four footed animals and crawling creatures.”

                So man’s wisdom when detached from God becomes foolishness, self-defeating, perverted and evil. Therefore if we want the wisdom of God, that eternal wisdom from above, we need to actively ask for and engage in that wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Those who are wise will build their lives on a platform of God’s Wisdom. If you want to live for eternity you need God’s eternal wisdom to get you there.

                So I am going to leave it right there, for if we are tuned into God’s wisdom we will understand the times in which we live and we will understand something of His purposes for our lives and why we were placed us on this planet at this particular time in history. Selah.

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