“For my ideas aren’t your ideas, neither are your methods my methods, declares the Lord. For because the heavens are greater than the earth, so are my methods greater than your methods and my ideas than your ideas” (Isaiah 55:8,9).
ONE OF LIFE’S GREATEST CHALLENGES IS TO TRUST GOD ENOUGH TO ACCEPT HIS MEANS AND HIS METHODS. Many are those that say they love God and belief Him, however in an age when human emotions are the last word supply of authority, most individuals are keen to ignore something within the Scriptures that doesn’t appear affordable to them. We are saying we imagine God is non-negotiable, however in relation to “means and strategies,” we regularly see these as versatile.
Few of us would have arrange the gospel plan of salvation as God did. Even within the apostolic age, the gospel met with resistance from many who noticed it as both ineffective or unsophisticated. Talking as one who knew what it was wish to reject the gospel as being unreasonable, Paul mentioned, “For the phrase of the cross is folly to those that are perishing, however to us who’re being saved it’s the energy of God. For it’s written, ‘I’ll destroy the knowledge of the sensible, and the discernment of the discerning I’ll thwart.’ The place is the one who is smart? The place is the scribe? The place is the debater of this age? Has not God made silly the knowledge of the world? For since, within the knowledge of God, the world didn’t know God by means of knowledge, it happy God by means of the folly of what we preach to avoid wasting those that imagine” (1 Corinthians 1:18–21).
However what about us right this moment? Are we keen to just accept God usually issues like love and religion, however in relation to His directions within the Scriptures about how these rules are to be carried out, can we balk? The unavoidable reality is, if we don’t belief God’s revealed directions, we don’t belief God Himself.
We see no higher instance of somebody yielding to God’s plan than Jesus yielding within the matter of His crucifixion (John 12:27,28). He went to the cross not as a result of it was straightforward or as a result of it was His desire, however just because He trusted His Father’s plan. He trusted the plan as a result of He trusted His Father. And make no mistake: it was His obedience that confirmed that He trusted Him.
“Religion reposes on the character of God, and if we imagine that God is ideal, we should conclude that his methods are good additionally” (A. W. Tozer).
Gary Henry — WordPoints.com + AreYouaChristian.com
