God For A Day
Admit it. You’ve thought about it. You’ve said, “If I were God I’d _______.”
"Why did He answer that prayer that way, can’t He see ahead and realize the heartache and misery that this is going to cause? No, I sure wouldn’t have done it that way."
God is generous and gives us many of the things we ask for. He blesses us with spiritual gifts; among them are discernment and wisdom. But those gifts do not ever give us license to be God — not even for a second and certainly not for a whole day.
Why do I even try to understand why God does or lets happen some of the things that seem so unkind or unfair to me? Why do I not spend my time doing what God has instructed me to do? Things like being salt and light as taught by Jesus in Matthew Chapter 5, bringing out the God flavors of the earth and the God colors of this world.
Those are things I can do, and some days I’m good at it, other days not so much. I need to be plugged in to God, constantly recharging to maintain my saltiness and radiance.
The task is much easier if I am willing to let God be God, He doesn’t need me to give Him permission to answer prayers in a certain way. He would rather I offer a prayer to Him and let Him take it from there.
He would rather I have compassion and concern for those that are in need of His love and care, and show them that love by being the salt and light that I can be through Him. Or as I like to think of it, “shake and shine”.
In Isaiah 55 there are a couple of verses that let me know why I (or you) can’t be God for a day. “I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work."
“For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.” (from Isaiah 55:8-11, The Message Bible)
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Zephaniah 3:17...."The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”