Good morning,
I do whatever I wish!
Now that I am well into my 70’s, I have to keep remembering that most of the people around me know little or nothing about what life was like when I was a kid. While my dad was off fighting in World War II, and we were living with my grandparents on a farm. I clearly remember pumping water by hand, getting food off a black wood stove, lighting oil lamps at night and going out to the outhouse for personal relief. Now that some of my grandchildren are old enough to have kids of their own, they will be raising them from infancy with a phone that has a noisy fast action screen, so how can they understand what life is all about at my age? That’s an issue that God has always had to deal with over the thousands of years of history that people have had to move through in generation after generation. The God of creation and his handbook, the Bible, is the only way we will get accurate information about the past and the present and the future. God has kept using his prophets to remind each generation about the real purpose of who he is and why we are here.
The prophet Isaiah was living in a time when the children of Israel had forgotten what life was all about so he gave that generation the truth they needed to hear again if they were going to be a part of God’s eternal plan. In Isaiah 46 he said, "Listen to me, descendants of Jacob, all you who remain in Israel. I have cared for you since you were born. Yes, I carried you before you were born.(v.3) Our creator God has always given us human life on earth as a gift that can be exchanged for an eternal life with him, if we are willing to trust his love for us and obey his guidelines for our lives and accept the gift of forgiveness that his son Jesus would provide with his willing death and resurrection. The Lord goes on to say, I will be your God throughout your lifetime–
until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.(v.4) What the Enemy of our soul does when he loses control of our rebellious spirits is to get us to change our focus from following our Savior through the challenges of life to again begin to expect God to give us what we want in life. In this same chapter the Lord says, Remember the things I have done in the past. For I alone am God! I am God, and there is none like me. Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.(vs.9,10) Satan hates the fact that God is always right, so he does his best to get us to forget what God has done in the past and get us more and more focused on what he tells us are our rights to life just like the people around us. He does his best to get us focused on the latest and greatest and forget our Heavenly Father’s claim on us based on “If you love me, Keep my commandments.” Dear Lord, please help us to remember that you always do what is right and you do whatever you wish.
Isaiah 46:10 Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass,
for I do whatever I wish.
Roy Wisner
