If we are going to live and function in the kingdom of God, we are necessarily going to need to be on our toes. Otherwise, we will miss it while it is taking place.
God is so big He can stay hidden. He is fascinating and remarkable. No one would have assumed He would go through the birth channels of a virgin to deliver salvation to all of mankind. Human minds just aren't programmed to think this way. God has often reversed the obvious. And if not careful we will miss it because we tend to lean in upon the reasonable rather than the faithful.
One of my daily tasks is to cheer on a member of this congregation who has resided in prison for a few months now. I wrote her this morning, You will always let the sentence serve you more than you serve the sentence. Meaning? A child of God is always advantaged by every circumstance.
This woman will not just sit and grieve. She will not just put in her time. That isn't her nature and it isn't God's nature in her. She will let this sentence she endures pay dividends by awakening to the God-drive within her. She will come out; not beaten down, but built up.
How? Why? This will take place because God has that genius to reverse the obvious. We are called to see it by faith.
Take a look at I Corinthians 1:26-31. God called the plain and the rejected and the weak to baffle the wise and the mighty and the powerful. He does it by reversing the obvious.
Awaken to life. Awaken. It is all around.
If you are looking for it with hopes of parading your accomplishments, you are looking in all of the wrong places. The truth of the matter is that often the very things we wish we didn't have are those things that God chooses to use for His glory....because when we work from our weaknesses, He gets the glory.
God reverses the obvious....and it takes a thoughtful eye to notice. He calls it faith.
No comments:
Post a Comment