What a Promise!
Where my head's at this week:
In John, Jesus told his disciples that whatever they ask in His name will be done, this was just after telling them that they would go on to do even greater things than He had! This is a pretty remarkable statement, He healed the sick, made the blind to see, even raised the dead...His buddy Lazarus had been dead long enough that Mary feared to open the tomb as he would have started to smell.
That's a mighty big promise, so why then don't we see this power working in our lives? Why do many things asked in His name seem to go unanswered? The sick, though they have faith, remain in their wheelchairs, our problems don't evaporate, and so on. Clearly there are some missing pieces, and we can find some clues in the word. Part of the answer is timing, these things happen only in God's timing. He sees so much farther than we could ever hope to see, and understands so much better when things need to happen in our lives, but it's easy to question, actually it's hard not to question. As hard as it may be to live through the trials we face as we walk through life, there are things to be learned each time we walk through the valley of Baca.
Man makes many plans, but God's plan will prevail, Jesus recognized at the most trying time in His life that His Father's plans must prevail, not my will but yours be done. So our requests may not, and from my experience will not, be answered right away, and our requests need to be in line with God's will, in line with his greater plan for our lives. How then do we even know what to ask? How do we know His will for our lives? I really haven't got the answers, I guess the best thing we can do it recognize that we don't know His will or His plan for our lives so start by asking for the Holy Spirit to reveal some of that to us. Better yet, just ask that His will be done in whatever it is that you're facing.
Ultimately we are required to keep our faith steady, trust that He has a plan, believe that He is faithful and that He will come through. We also need to realize that the answer may look nothing like we believe it will. He may provide a means of escape from our current situation but that path may be entirely different from anything we'd imagined it would be.
The promise is great, but getting to that promise isn't without it's challenges
In John, Jesus told his disciples that whatever they ask in His name will be done, this was just after telling them that they would go on to do even greater things than He had! This is a pretty remarkable statement, He healed the sick, made the blind to see, even raised the dead...His buddy Lazarus had been dead long enough that Mary feared to open the tomb as he would have started to smell.
That's a mighty big promise, so why then don't we see this power working in our lives? Why do many things asked in His name seem to go unanswered? The sick, though they have faith, remain in their wheelchairs, our problems don't evaporate, and so on. Clearly there are some missing pieces, and we can find some clues in the word. Part of the answer is timing, these things happen only in God's timing. He sees so much farther than we could ever hope to see, and understands so much better when things need to happen in our lives, but it's easy to question, actually it's hard not to question. As hard as it may be to live through the trials we face as we walk through life, there are things to be learned each time we walk through the valley of Baca.
Man makes many plans, but God's plan will prevail, Jesus recognized at the most trying time in His life that His Father's plans must prevail, not my will but yours be done. So our requests may not, and from my experience will not, be answered right away, and our requests need to be in line with God's will, in line with his greater plan for our lives. How then do we even know what to ask? How do we know His will for our lives? I really haven't got the answers, I guess the best thing we can do it recognize that we don't know His will or His plan for our lives so start by asking for the Holy Spirit to reveal some of that to us. Better yet, just ask that His will be done in whatever it is that you're facing.
Ultimately we are required to keep our faith steady, trust that He has a plan, believe that He is faithful and that He will come through. We also need to realize that the answer may look nothing like we believe it will. He may provide a means of escape from our current situation but that path may be entirely different from anything we'd imagined it would be.
The promise is great, but getting to that promise isn't without it's challenges
Labels: so many questions
posted by CanuckJack at 4:29 PM
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