In Matthew 22:37 Jesus says: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." Here He gives us the first and greatest commandment. Sounds pretty important, doesn't it? I have to ask myself this question: "how did I love the Lord with all my heart, soul, and mind today?" Have you asked yourself the question? It is pretty searching.
If Jesus considered this question of utmost importance, we should understand that it is likely an area of our life that we will constantly struggle in. Satan and our own corrupt nature war against us in this regard. Think back to a time when you truly loved the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind. What's changed today?
As I think about this it seems to me that we forget that God is sovereign. He has a plan, for every event, life, and happening in the entire universe, throughout every moment in time. And that means He has mapped out a special plan for your life and mine. Now what is truly amazing is that He loves us who are called by His Name so much that he has done this. Think about it, if he left things, even the little ones to us to sort out, what would we do? Mess it up, of course. But he loves us and works all things out for our good.
How can we understand this? Its really very simple ... Because he works providentially in all things, because he is sovereign, he has all things worked out to accomplish his good and perfect will. If we really believe this we can rejoice and give thanks, in every situation.
Now back to my point, why do we slip off the path so often in life? Because we forget that God has a good and perfect plan for our lives, one that he has worked out from before the beginning of time. How incredible is that! We should seek his will daily with everything we do. If we walk with him step by step each day, we can take great confidence in all that we do. If we walk alone day by day, where can we expect to go? Down the wrong paths.
Understand that God works providentially in your life and rejoice in it as you choose to walk obediently to his will for you as revealed in his Word.
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Amen, good post brother! I needed this today. You strike the right balance, showing that God's sovereignty doesn't leave us unmotivated. Rather, it should make us that much MORE motivated to serve and glorify Him by doing His will.
I am constantly searching for Christians who embrace paradox, and always seeking ideas for my devotional/theological blog about God's paradoxes. Would you mind if I quoted some of your writing there? Paradox Mountain looks like a great place - both in the real world and in cyberspace.
Hope to hear from you,
Derek Ashton
Jacksonville, Florida
Feel free to quote any you like. Appreciate your comments and nice to hear from another who sees the amazing paradox of God's ways. Look forward to reading your blog.
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