Dear friends
I was laughing when I caught myself in a conversation with GOD today and heard myself tell HIM that I am glad HE didn’t do what I asked HIM to do yesterday and did what was best for me instead……
Have you ever had a revelation like this?
I found myself feeling like a child and when I kept musing about this occurrence, I found many other situations in my life when – in retrospect of course!!! – what GOD decided for me was much better than what I had asked for HIM to do.
Could it be that HE is ALWAYS right???????
It makes me feel even more like a child and as if I know nothing when I follow this line of thoughts….
But even though this is not empowering or pleasant, I do believe that these type of realizations and coming to a deeper understanding like this brings us closer to GOD and to how HE wants us to live and relate to HIM.
In GODs word, we are even asked to become like little children:
Matthew 18:3
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
I had always thought this is speaking of the levels of joy and of the awe GOD wants us to have when we walk with HIM.
But indeed, when I think about it, there is also a level of obedience and trust that only little children normally have.
For example, even though it sometimes makes absolutely no sense, for instance when a caregiver is neglecting or even abusing them, they would still run to that very same person and express their hurt to them and expecting them to help them heal.
As I said, in many situations in “real life”, as in relating to human beings, being like a little child, having so much faith in someone, makes absolutely no sense and is not even recommendable! We are even often told to “grow up” when our expectations towards a person, their abilities, their loyalty or their maturity are too high.
This makes more sense, the more I think about it!
Isn’t it like that with all things GOD is asking us to do or to be…?
If that wasn’t so, me, I wouldn’t be here anymore, I wouldn’t walk with GOD, wouldn’t even stay in the faith, let alone talk about it so much online and offline.
I believe GOD has created us with a brain for a reason, so that we can critically evaluate everything we come across, including HIS words and HIS teachings.
Me, I am very critical – of myself, of others, of doctrines and especially when someone claims to have ALL the truth and all the wisdom, I will cross-examine them and everything they are doing and saying!
GOD is the only one I was so far unable to “figure out”, I have been studying HIS word and teachings and their practical appliance to life intensely for many years now, and I have yet to find any leaks, inconsistencies, irregularities or discrepancies – which is quite remarkable and is unparalleled in my own research.
That’s got to mean something.
Obviously, I am not the cleverest person in the world and if I cannot find a flaw in you or your method or system, that doesn’t necessarily mean there are none.
HOWEVER, when I tested the other “truths” I have come across over my life and over a period of intense searching over many, many years, I always discovered something which didn’t seem right.
That’s also got to mean something.
At least it does for me.
And I am speaking of theory and practical proof.
The teachings are sound and make sense and the entire “system” doesn’t only seem reasonable, but it also works! It’s literally life-changing to apply GOD’s word and HIS wisdom to all kinds of areas and situations, not only in my own life, I’ve also seen it work wonders in other people’s lives.
I personally have come to the conclusion that this can only mean that it actually IS the truth.
Or if there is a better truth, I have yet to find it – and from all these years of searching and only finding fake counterfeits and stuff that didn’t work, I highly doubt and I do not see even a chance of 0.000000000001% percent that I would find something truer than JESUS’ THRUTH, the truth of the bible.
I may not always LIKE this truth, but that doesn’t mean that it is not true!
In fact, I – like every human being I guess – may sometimes like the lies of the devil better than GOD’s truth, except for the fact that they aren’t true LOL
Maybe it’s because I am currently fasting, which is always a period of new revelations for me and of deepening my relationship with GOD, of getting closer to HIM and hearing HIM more often and more intensely, or perhaps I went through so much “stuff” lately that something snapped and forced me to let go – but arriving at this stage of surrender also has a sense of peace to it, a level of peace that I have probably not felt before….
It doesn’t mean that I am not distressed or worried or annoyed about the way my life is going - but to see that many things in retrospect make a lot of sense makes it easier to let go and let GOD…..
How about you, my friend?
Did you ever think that GOD was right in not giving you what you had asked HIM for?
Did you ever think that what HE had done rather than what you had wanted was even better?
I hope and pray that this will inspire, heal, encourage and bless you.
And that THE LORD will bless you abundantly in all areas of your life; that HE will keep you and shine HIS face upon you and bring you peace.
In JESUS’ name I pray.
AMEN.
Witness for Jesus 