Good morning,
Have you ever wondered how
God knows what’s going to happen before it actually happens? We have
grown up in a world of empty promises and have learned that you have to
be able to look back on an event before you know for sure what
happened. If you think about that you know that even when an event is
passed, there is still all kinds of information that we don’t have that
keeps us from having the full picture. Apple has just won a court case
against another company that was copying its iPhone, but during the
trial the offending company tried to give all kinds of “proof” that they
were not guilty as charged. We find ourselves facing the same kind of
problem when it comes to understanding what God is doing in the
circumstances of life that we are facing as individuals and as the human
race. The Bible is very clear in telling us that our Creator God has
already finished the master plan for all of time, but our Enemy does his
best to get us to believe that his explanations for God’s plan has
nothing to do with “a god” at all. When God tells us what is going to
happen, he gives us that information based on what he will be doing to
carry out his perfect plan. In his eternal setting, the events we are
now living through are already finished.
Since we know that we can
trust our God, we dare not get taken in by our enemies explanations of
what is going on. There has been dramatic and damaging weather world
wide, but the real explanation is not global warming, it is God’s global
warning. The financial structure of the world’s governments is falling
apart, but the sin based explanation of faulty planning is really man’s
rebellion against God’s rules for honesty and integrity. Our family
structures are all being “updated”, but God says we are living self
centered, lust filled lives. As God’s kids, we can trust our God to
save us from the destruction that is coming on our world. As God’s
kids, we can trust him to work out his perfect plans for our lives.
(Psalm 138:8) Since the God we serve is in perfect control, we can live
here now in hope and joy. Our Savior is saving us day by day and our
Good Shepherd is leading us perfectly through the darkest of valleys and
providing us with all that we need, to finish well this side of our
eternal home. May the Lord help us to see our lives through his holy
filter instead of living with the values of those captured by the lies
of the lost.
Isaiah 25:9 In
that day the people will proclaim, “This is our God! We trusted in him,
and he saved us! This is the LORD, in whom we trusted. Let us rejoice in
the salvation he brings!”
Roy Wisner
