GOD CANNOT BE PUT IN A BOX
Dear Heart:
We tend to put God in a box and plan out Gods will for our lives. BUT GOD CANNOT BE PUT IN A BOX, NOR CAN HIS WILL BE PUT IN A BOX!!! We humans would prefer a more dimensional God, but HE is not dimensional. He is Alpha and Omega. His thoughts are not our thoughts nor His ways our ways. We should not expect God to work out OUR plans, as noble as they might be. I remember lying on my sofa in total despair and grief, begging The Lord to just let me die. I felt like my despair and total confusion was dragging His name through the mud, and that was the last thing in the world I wanted! My marriage was disintegrating before my very eyes, and EVERYONE was watching it happen. I was humiliated! My whole life was in chaos. I felt like I was losing my mind, seriously going INSANE! All I had ever wanted was to glorify God in every area of my life, and here I was facing failure in my marriage and definitely failure in my response to it. I was imploding in the midst of my trial, full of fear and disappointment, anger and resentment, failing God and myself. In the midst of my HOPELESSNESS God spoke to me and said,
"Joan, what if I told you that your TOTAL failure would bring more glory
to Me than any success you could ever imagine?" ... (Stop: Think about that for just a minute...) I was stunned. What? My failure bringing glory to God? I had never EVER thought about that!!! What if... ???
Faye, all of a sudden I saw a light at the end of the long dismal tunnel of my utter failure! It was...glorious! Could it be remotely possible that all of the YUCK that was happening in my marriage could be a weird and wonderful pathway to greater glory for my precious Father-God? EUREKA!
We cannot put God in a box!!!!!! He is bigger than our very small mindset. He doesn't do the "happily ever after" fairy tale that we all envision and want desperately! He "does "babies PUT IN baskets and into streams, relinquished in anguish by a loving mother...and produces a Moses to save a nation FOR GOD'S GLORY! Who could ever put that kind of thing into play but a God who sees beyond fairy tales!
Oh, yes! God works in the midst of the yuck, in the midst of our seeming failure and in the face of husbands who have seemingly LOST THEIR MINDS! When we cannot SEE Gods hand, He is doing His VERY BEST WORK. I'm living proof!!!!!
Smile, my sweet sister. God is just about to SHOW OFF big time. There is definitely a Red Sea in front of you and armies of doubt, disappointment and despair on your heals ... but God is about about to part the water and lead you across your worst nightmare to dry land and Canaan!!!! And your children and grandchildren will live to tell of HOW a Child of God faces adversity ... And they will learn by watching YOU. YES, the best is yet to come!!! TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
We tend to put God in a box and plan out Gods will for our lives. BUT GOD CANNOT BE PUT IN A BOX, NOR CAN HIS WILL BE PUT IN A BOX!!! We humans would prefer a more dimensional God, but HE is not dimensional. He is Alpha and Omega. His thoughts are not our thoughts nor His ways our ways. We should not expect God to work out OUR plans, as noble as they might be. I remember lying on my sofa in total despair and grief, begging The Lord to just let me die. I felt like my despair and total confusion was dragging His name through the mud, and that was the last thing in the world I wanted! My marriage was disintegrating before my very eyes, and EVERYONE was watching it happen. I was humiliated! My whole life was in chaos. I felt like I was losing my mind, seriously going INSANE! All I had ever wanted was to glorify God in every area of my life, and here I was facing failure in my marriage and definitely failure in my response to it. I was imploding in the midst of my trial, full of fear and disappointment, anger and resentment, failing God and myself. In the midst of my HOPELESSNESS God spoke to me and said,
"Joan, what if I told you that your TOTAL failure would bring more glory
to Me than any success you could ever imagine?" ... (Stop: Think about that for just a minute...) I was stunned. What? My failure bringing glory to God? I had never EVER thought about that!!! What if... ???
Faye, all of a sudden I saw a light at the end of the long dismal tunnel of my utter failure! It was...glorious! Could it be remotely possible that all of the YUCK that was happening in my marriage could be a weird and wonderful pathway to greater glory for my precious Father-God? EUREKA!
We cannot put God in a box!!!!!! He is bigger than our very small mindset. He doesn't do the "happily ever after" fairy tale that we all envision and want desperately! He "does "babies PUT IN baskets and into streams, relinquished in anguish by a loving mother...and produces a Moses to save a nation FOR GOD'S GLORY! Who could ever put that kind of thing into play but a God who sees beyond fairy tales!
Oh, yes! God works in the midst of the yuck, in the midst of our seeming failure and in the face of husbands who have seemingly LOST THEIR MINDS! When we cannot SEE Gods hand, He is doing His VERY BEST WORK. I'm living proof!!!!!
Smile, my sweet sister. God is just about to SHOW OFF big time. There is definitely a Red Sea in front of you and armies of doubt, disappointment and despair on your heals ... but God is about about to part the water and lead you across your worst nightmare to dry land and Canaan!!!! And your children and grandchildren will live to tell of HOW a Child of God faces adversity ... And they will learn by watching YOU. YES, the best is yet to come!!! TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
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