Messages
| Gods Ways not Ours | 7.18.10 |
To live a God-centered life, we must focus our life on God’s purposes, not our own plans. We must seek to see from God’s perspective rather than from our own distorted human perspective.
We do not sit down and dream what we want to do for God and then call God in to help us accomplish it. The pattern in the Scripture is that we submit ourselves to God and we wait until God show us what He is about to do, or we watch to see what God is doing around us and join Him.
Why do we not realize that doing things God’s way is always best? We cause some of the wreck and ruin in our lives because “ we” have a plan. We implement the plan and get out of it only what we can do. Oh that we would discover the difference when we let God be the Head of that body. He will accomplish more in six months through a people yielded to Him than we could do in sixty years without Him.
God desires that His people follow His ways. God’s ways will always be best…. and right.
God wants us to adjust our lives to Him so He can do through us what He wants to do. God is not our servant to make adjustment to our plans. We are His servants and we adjust our lives to what He is about to do and to His ways of doing it. If we will not submit , God will let us follow our own devices. In following them, however, we will never experience what God is waiting and wanting to do in our behalf or through us for others.
We need to know what God has on His agenda for us, our church, community, and nation at this time in history. Then we can adjust our life to God, so that He can move us into the mainstream of His activity before it is too late. Though God likely will not give you a detailed schedule, He will let you know one step at a time how you need to respond to what He is doing.
The moment we sense that God is moving in our life, we give Him a whole list of reasons why He has got the wrong person or why the time is not right. That is what Moses did, God knows that you can’t do it! But He wants to do it Himself throughyou.
Tim Carlisle