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Our Father knows best

Don’t ask God for what you think is good; ask Him for what He thinks is good for you.

– God’s Little Instruction Book for Men

If we ask for what we think is good we are limited by our own finite experiences and imagination. But God is unlimited.
He knows everything.

“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your

thoughts’” (Isaiah 55:9, NIV).

God knows our past in every minute detail.
He knows all our possible futures just as clearly.
And God is the One who put us together.
Not only our physical body, but also our inner selves: our minds, our spirits, our souls, our personalities.
And, God knows where we are at:
He knows all our thoughts, all our dreams and all our desires.
God has a plan for your life and mine.
All through history God has been working out a master plan of bringing the lost people He
loves back to Himself.
God has a part for you to play in this drama and He has placed you where you are in history and location, and designed your personality and giftedness and circumstances so that you would be perfectly suited to carry out His plan.
Since God knows who we are,
how we’re made,
where we’ve been,
and the best place for us to go,
He alone knows exactly what we need most.
And because He is all powerful,
He alone is able to grant it.
So call on Him today and instead of asking Him for what you want, ask Him for what He wants for you.
He will grant your request
and you will come to know the Lord in a new and powerfully life-changing way.
To learn more about God’s plan for you, read the Bible (Psalm 145:18-19, 147:5, Jeremiah 29:11-13, Matthew 6:9-10), talk to a friend who knows Jesus, visit a church that honors and preaches The Bible and Jesus as God, and, if you would like, write your comment on this blog.

“When you’re not welcome you don’t hang around” – Cher

When I first came to know Jesus I felt that everyone needed to discover that God loves them just as they are, and that He died so we could spend forever with Him and Him with us.

Twenty-nine years later I still believe that.

The difference is that now I don’t also DEMAND that everyone discover that God loves them. Jesus said that if you are persecuted in one city, flee to the next. He did not say to stay and fight and impose your will on them. Jesus respects our right to choose to enter a relationship with Him of our own free will or to choose to reject a relationship with Him by that same free will. He gave us that right. And it is the cornerstone upon which a love relationship is built (or conversely, self-destruction begins).

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.” – Jesus, Mathew 7:6

I have experienced the above verse. God gave me a window to reach someone I love, with God’s love, because I begged Him. That person listened, did not believe, but did not attack me. A week later I tried again, this time God was clearly warning me not to talk to them about Jesus. I ignored His warnings and as soon as I brought up Jesus, I was scathingly attacked with all the fury of Satan. Jesus protected me from the attack but it was a very scary and humiliating lesson.

Now I tell God I want to want whatever He wants and to lead me to someone today who wants to know Him.

He answers that prayer every time.

When doing right doesn’t always feel right

A man’s wisdom gives him patience;

it is to his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11 NIV84

I was recently asked if my lack of retaliation when insulted was a strength or a weakness. In my pride I was deeply insulted that they might feel I was a coward letting others intimidate me. I wanted them to know it was my love for Jesus that motivated my absorption of evil. I verbalized to them that God in the Bible in Proverbs talks about wisdom overlooking an offense (I couldn’t remember the verse exactly). They cut me off by quickly saying, “it’s a strength” and left.

People who don’t know Jesus don’t understand us, His followers. They wonder how can someone be kind to someone who has just said to them, “I don’t like you, I don’t want you to help me, I want someone else.” Returning kindness when someone hurts you makes no sense. Unless, you have an allegiance to something higher than your own ego.

When I’m insulted I hurt. And the times I return kindness I don’t feel full of love at that moment. Many times I am dealing with the feelings of wanting retaliation as I am trying to express understanding to my attacker. Is this hypocrisy? Because my feelings don’t match up with my actions of love, satan tells me I am a hypocrite. He does this in hopes that I become confused and stop revealing the reality of Jesus to someone who desperately needs Him. However, the Truth is conflicting feelings do not negate the sincerity of righteous action. Feelings don’t think. They respond. Feelings follow footsteps. And when I am loving my enemy I may still be responding to the hurt he has caused me. As I continue to love my attacker, my feelings may catch up to my actions and I may eventually feel love for my enemy. Or, I may not. Either way I continue to act in the best interest of my attacker.

Because that’s what Jesus did for me when I was His attacker.

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