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Isaiah 40.13, 14 (NIV)
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?
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| How silly we must appear to God.* |
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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. We only know 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.*
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| If God must choose between your earthly satisfaction and your heavenly salvation, which do you hope he chooses?* |
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