Good Morning,
As we stay in God's Word and busy ourselves with doing the Kingdom's business, He busies Himself with our steps to bring us to our, 'such a time as this'. We must stop putting God and His Word to us on trial. When will we just simply believe, and quit trying to make an all-knowing [omniscient] God fit into our limited reasoning and understanding? "If a person really loves Me, he will keep My Words, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him. Anyone who does not [really] love Me, does not observe and obey My teaching.." (John 14:23-24) We can take this verse and see if we are keeping, obeying and observing His Word, or, are we constantly trying to get God to keep our words, and obey us? This is what we find ourselves doing, "We humans keep brainstorming options and plans; but (except for the fact) God's purpose prevails." (Prov. 19:21; The Message) Purpose means the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan; the intention and design of a thing; that which is before one as an object to be reached or accomplished. God, our Father always keeps the right view. When your view becomes selfish, or gets obscured because of testings and trials, or because you have to many highways erected in your mind, He stays constant. If you lose focus, all you need to do is go back to the One Who hasn't been moved. God knows our intention and our design. He established that, even before we were in our mother's womb. Again let us be reminded, "like an open book, You watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before You, the days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day." (Psalms 139:16; The Message) He knows how to get His purpose and plan from us, and the path to accomplish it. Since He loves us so much, we need to trust that when He tells us to do something, that it is for our own good, to bring us to His plan.
There have always been people that have loved God enough to simply trust Him enough to obey Him. I choose to join that group. How about you? Enoch was such a person as this. He believed God in the midst of a generation of doubters and unbelievers. What made him different? I believe he made up his mind that no matter what anyone else did or didn't do, he was going to love God with his whole heart. "Enoch walked (regulated his life and conducted himself in union with and in conformity to Him) in habitual fellowship with God; and he was not, for God took him [home with Him]." (Gen. 5:24) This is the picture of the end-time church, where we must be headed. Just switch in your mind, that place where everything has to be your way, and let it be His way. Serve Him from the place of loving Him without all of your self-centered criteria. "And I am confident of this very thing that He which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." (Phil. 1:6) Confident means to trust, yield; bold to a vice; having an excess of assurance; trusting without suspicion. Have you trusted God without suspicion? Has everything He said to you been under suspicion? Suspicion means to doubt the trustworthiness and reliability or favor of; to distrust or mistrust. Only God has been proven to be above suspicion. "As for God His way is perfect! The Word of the Lord is tested and tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge and put their trust in Him." (Psalms 18:30) Come on family, let's be bold and have an excess of assurance in Him and simply live our lives regulated by His Word. Everything will work together for our good, and we will be like Enoch. One day we will disappear and be home with God!
"Trust God without suspicion"
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 