Do we know God and His ways—R Fritz
It is imperative to know God and his ways. If we do not, we do what we think God would want, where we are lost because God‘s ways in situations are not what we think they are. I have seen many times how I think God would do things is not how he sees things. I was amazed at how God solved the situation, something far greater than what I had thought. That is why when God sends us to do something, the Holy Spirit gives us what we need being words, Bible verses, or actions we need to take. When our relationship with the Holy Spirit is nonexistent, we tend to ask other people we follow we think know God. Bad situation because we are held accountable for all the things we say as well as our actions no matter where our information comes from. Isaiah 55:8-9 says “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” We think we know what is best for us, it is our pride that leaves God out of our lives. Why is it we think we can do it our way then when everything fails, we go to God? When are we going to learn go to the best option first not last. That tells me we do not know God.
My question to people is why do we not want to know God? Is it fear? I am somebody that fear controlled my life for fifty years but was not afraid of God but of people. Before I knew who he was I felt his presence. When I started to hear from other people who God was and what he did for them that is when God started to speak to me. That was God wanting to communicate with me. I ask questions of people because I want to know and started asking questions of God. Suddenly, he started answering my questions, at first, I did not know it was God. One day I was asking a person a question when the answer was given before I got all the words from my question out of my mouth through my thoughts. The next question was answered before I got anything out of mouth through my thoughts. That was when I knew God had a plan. I was battling something at the time and asked God to get involved in my life. I was looking for answers everywhere. One thing I found out about God is if your serious about finding an answer and keep pushing God for an answer I have usually gotten them, maybe not right then but later even a day or two later even after I have forgotten about my questions.
We have a loving God who is love, saying that his love is far greater than human love. 1 John 4:7-8,12,16 says “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” God sent his son to take the penalty for sin, eternal death, the penalty which God handed out for our sin. God chose life for us which is greater love where we must repent, choose Jesus and obey him. When we choose not to obey, we choose to do it on our own way we bypass God then where is our love because we do not believe in God? God’s love is all around us and in us if we have the Holy Spirit. The question we should ask God is, is my heart right and am I hearing you? If I am not hearing you, why? It is us looking at ourselves by asking the Holy Spirit where we stand.
We are supposed to judge ourselves or we will be judged. We should be looking at ourselves every day to see if we are doing the right thing. It requires us to ask the Holy Spirit and pray about what we are doing. If we are studying the Bible looking at who God is, his ways, what words meant from God, you will find out how man changed the meaning such as grace because over time people have used God’s words, added to them and meanings were changed. All this happens but God does not change. Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.” This verse speaks of God’s unchanging nature and character are constant and believers can trust what is written. We can count on God’s character, words meaning and what he says he means. Love, grace and mercy are who he is. When we believe who he says he is we can move on with life with belief that what he tells us will happen. When we believe what the Bible says we gain confidence in our life as we follow God’s word. That confidence changes our life because that is what happened to me. When we choose to follow and obey what God asks us to do, we will see miracles, we will see our life changing as people will see us as different because we think different as we think out of the box (different than everybody else). Almost twenty-five years following Jesus I have seen many miracles sometimes so many that they seem normal and I am asked to do things sometimes I do not want to do, having just said that I am still human and sometimes I see things in the flesh and not in the spirit which is the problem we all have, it is a trust issue as I still do what I am asked to do.
The problem we have is we do not know God. Things we do not understand are when we pray, we are looking for what we asked for verses what God will give us. We then believe God did not answer our prayer when he did, not exactly like we wanted. We need to look at the times we believed God did not answer us. Sometimes God sent somebody to take care of what we needed or sometimes it takes time for the person to do what God wants done. 2Corinthians 5:7 says “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)” We just need to stand and wait on the Holy Spirit to get everything lined up as we are not forgotten. Our trust and our ability to learn who God is, is where we need to look in the Bible as that is what I did where the Holy Spirit will show us the answers we are looking for. God Bless.
