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No Comments The Way God Works
I’ve listened to people say that God loves them so much and they believe he answers every prayer and God even finds them a parking spot when needed. I can’t say too much about God being a “sugar daddy” except to say that the rain falls on us all. I remember Fulton Sheen saying that God loved his mother so much he let her die peaceably in her sleep. As many of us can testify, that wasn’t the case for our mothers.
Throughout scripture I’ve noticed that God doesn’t do anything until the cercumstances becomes impossible. I know people are instantaneously healed by God’s power and I believe it’s necessary to believe God before you can have faith in him. God does do things for us to allow us to personally know that he listens to our prayers. That’s all on a personal, one on one basis.
When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt they met the Red Sea right away. If you’ve ever looked at the place of their crossing you realize it was an impossible situation. Gideon’s army was a paltry 300 men; impossible. Marching around Jericho blowing trumpets; impossible. When God watered down the idol of Baal and the prophets of Baal exampled all the futility of worshiping a dead god, God burned the whole sacrifice completely; impossible.
Time after time we find ourselves in impossible situations and today we find ourselves in the ultimate predicament. Civilization seems to be completely unraveling. Lawlessness and corruption contaminate everything from top to bottom. Some would say that this is the end and from what the Book of Revelation tells us we sure look close to that hour.
The church in America has divorced itself for the most part from the church in the rest of the world. We church people are America centered. We’ve forgotten we’re supposed to go into the whole world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. This isn’t to say there aren’t many good ministries doing wonderful things but as a whole the church is filled with people who focus most of their time and resources on human solutions to their problems.
God enjoys praise. I guess there’s something about being the Creator of everything that makes God assume we should pay homage and credit to the one who made us. He personally, on purpose, created us in his image. Being made from dust and returning to dust should make and keep us humble. We should be reverent and thankful to the one who holds our breath in his hands. As Americans we’ve pretty much decided that we can solve our problems without too much interference by God. Oh yeah, it’s great that God forgives our sin but after repeating the sinner’s prayer we jump into the caldron of American citizens who bandy about the boiling mess of mankind in an effort to solve all our problems with human solutions.
Now we are on the threshold of a world where common sense has been abandoned. We’ve lived in a house of cards sponsered by unthinkable debt for so long, we’ve ignored how thin the walls are that support our existence. In short, what we’re facing is impossible. I can’t say what exactly will happen (I’m not a prophet) but I do see the writing on the wall. The Bible is a book of wisdom; what was true six thousand years ago is true today. Simply put, you will reap what you sow. We have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind.
The times ahead are the ultimate test of our faith. We stand like those with the Red Sea before them with no way to go but through the water. All we can think of is drowning. Our everything is at risk of perishing; we have come to the end of man’s solutions. It’s ugly. We don’t want to do it. Many still pretend we can go back but no, the enemy is coming. They’re more powerful than us; they’ve already crushed many and we’re next.
Impossible. I don’t have answers but I do know this, God loves the impossible. It’s only then that God is glorified. Like the raising of Lazarus, Jesus waited till the stink was heavy in the air before he acted. The stench of filthy rags fill the American air. We entered the tomb a long time ago.
Will God do the impossible? Could be. This world is not my home, I’m just passing through but while I’m here I exalt God for who He is and what He has done and what his crown achievement is the Cross of Jesus Christ. This is what God has done for us. He doesn’t care about your parking spot. He cares about you and me and whether we choose Him above everything else.