Waist Deep 2018 - July 5

Isaiah 40: 13, 14 Who has instructed the mind of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding? (NIV)

How silly we must appear to God.*

God doesn’t need our advice. We don’t know anything that he doesn’t know. What fools we are to think that we know what’s best for our lives – or for someone else’s life. All we really know is what we want. We get a picture in our minds of what we want the future to look like and we proceed to direct God in how to accomplish it. 

To our credit, it’s not always lack of faith in God’s power and abilities that causes us to pursue our own paths. But it has to be some weakness on our part that leads us to start making arrangements without God’s blessing. We take the old saying so seriously: “God helps those who help themselves.” Really? Perhaps we should coin a new saying: “God helps those who trust him enough to wait.” While we are caught up in our earthly problems, God is more concerned with solving the heavenly ones. The fact is, we don’t ask too much – we ask too little! We ask God to resolve the temporary while he is busy resolving the eternal. We ask for immediate favor but God orchestrates eternal solutions.*

If God must choose between your earthly satisfaction and your heavenly salvation, which do you hope he chooses?*