Random Reflections: Monday

Jesus has never been anywhere and that place remain the same. Because he was known to mess up people's schedules. He WILL inconvenience you, but we have done almost everything we can to schedule God out.

Nearly every time God comes to my life, he has to ask, "Am I interrupting again?"

God also does not do comfortable. I do not like uncomfortable because it means releasing my control.

Prayer is one of my disappointing deficits, and God is calling me to the next level of prayer.

Spiritual people cry out, "Oh God!" in all situations, but I can often see crisis and say, "Okay! What am I going to do now?" This means I am living way beneath my God-given potential. I need to learn to stand in the midst of God and not make my own answer.

I have to learn to stand in the midst of God, and OBEY. Too many of us are educated beyond our ability to obey. We hear and then we analyze, and think about it. As Americans, that’s just what we do.

When I do not learn to live in this way, my problems become my identity. Maybe I think my problem will never be healed. God did not stretch the man’s withered hand, God said stretch forth your hand (Luke 6:6-11).

We are often haunted from our past, and Satan uses our past to destroy our future.

Disobedient children and God's love

When you ask a child to do something, and they do it immediately there is a strong sense of joy and respect that you feel.  In fact, you even feel loved by that child because they have OBEYED you. Now imagine children were basically robots without a choice.  Suppose you only had to push a child's nose like a button and it would just operate without any further prompting.  Initially, that may sound great.  That sounds wonderful in fact...until we remember back to the joy and the love we felt when the child CHOSE to obey what we asked of them.  If children were only robots, there would be no sense of love.  There would be no real obedience; there would only be programmed response.

Sure kids make choices that frustrate us as well, but there is great love in their obedience.

God could have created us as programmed robots who just need to have the "ON" button pushed to go on doing what we are supposed to do.  But God created us with a choice and a will, because our choice to obey God is loving.  When we CHOOSE to obey God, I think he feels loved and respected and honored at a much more multiplied level than I do when my child obeys me.