What are the plans God has for us? What are our plans that we ask God to bless? What is the better way to show our surrender to Him? Jeremiah 29:11-13. Verse 13 says we will find Him when we seek Him with all our heart, fully surrendered?
We cannot grasp the things God has for us. Isaiah 55:6-9 Its clear God has allowed us to determine our own ways and thoughts should we choose. Surrendering to Him means doing things His way not ours. If we reject Him and His ways we end up as described in Romans 1:24 and Ephesians 4:18. His ways are best His ways are truth and to go our way we reject Himand His truth.
Oh Lord that we would submit fully to your ways. The lord protects us as He remakes us as we surrender to Him. What did Jesus tell Peter? Luke 22:31 Simon, Satan hath desired to have you to sift you like wheat. The Lord kept Satan - doing things our way not God's from sifting through Peter. Each of us is sifted and must surrender as we submit to the Lord. He won't compel us He wants us to have relationship to Him of our own free will.
Often people get a certain distance with the Lord then stop, reserving places where they have not surrendered. Not focusing on His ways but our ways, turning from His ways, ignoring them. As if we are something special and we have figured out something the Lord of all eternity has somehow missed.
We attempt bend His truth to match our way but the reality is His truth is steadfast and our minds justify our actions. Little steps of self and pride. So as we allow focus on God and his ways to be ignored, or we avoid promoting the things of God, where does it all end?
Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:5, Jeremiah 32:35
The truth: as we think on God and His ways He'll protect our thoughts and keep us focused on His ways. What happens when we reject Him - He turns us over to thoughts He has never thought of. Things that may seem beneficial to ourselves but clearly hurt others.
Beware of turning your back on what you know is true because you do not want it to be real. Jesus Christ never says that a man is damned because he is a sinner; the condemnation is when a man sees what Jesus Christ came to do and will not let Him do it. Oswald Chambers
Isaiah 40- who is teaching God? Can we teach Him will our "logical" "rational" thoughts lead us to a point where we can ever reject His ways? NO
Isaiah 48:17-19 The Lord is our instructor, how do we get that instruction? By submitting to Him. Not going our own way - the way that seems right unto man Proverbs 14:12
Job's friends gave him counsel that misrepresented the Lord. How did they get there ? They went the way that seemed right to them. Was it good counsel? Were they genuinely trying to help Job? Job 38:2, 40:2, 42:1-9
We must yield to Him who knows, which means we do no know. Except as He lives through us surrendered to Him.
All have relationship to the Father, embrace it make it the best.
Be fruitful and multiply- God's ways
Why do people seek Him? Why do they consider the things of the Lord. Because their own thoughts scare them and He has planted His truth among those thoughts. Parable of the sower - talking up His kingdom everwhere, putting good seed out. Grain among the tares. They realize there is something else or something missing. The something else as they ponder it they partially want to reject.
Talk up the things of God- if people are offended they'll leave, where will they go? Pray for them, pray pray pray that they don't get trapped in a web of untruths thinking they have the best answers. In His day Jesus looked on the city of Jerusalem and wept (Luke 19:41-42), the bulk of the people had rejected His Father's ways.
If we worry about them leaving, aren't we saying there is another place to go. When people walked away from Jesus- the disciples remained and he asked if they would leave too. What was Peter's response? (John 6:67-68) Was that the truth? Those who won't leave have come to the conclusion, He is the only way, and they repent of their ways in order to turn to His.
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