We are the Plan – Part 1

This week, Michael writes: The late Christian author Oswald Chambers said that if you look to Jesus, regardless of the age in which you live, the world will call you an impractical dreamer. If we did according to what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, we would be radically different from the World. Jesus said, "When someone slaps you on the cheek, turn the other cheek with a good attitude." Sometimes when we're slapped across the cheek, the Holy Spirit will convict us. When we're wrong, God will allow the world to reprove us.

Isaiah 55: 6-9 “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 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're in trouble when we try to protect our "Rights." Any fool can claim his Rights and any demon will make sure he gets them. Human "rights" are often godly "wrongs" according to the standard of the Word of God. Rights are what God says is right and align with His perfect Word, Will and Way. The priority when we're wrong is to allow the Lord to reprove and correct us, in order to restore us to an upright position.

God and his Holy Spirit will mess with us and persuade us to return our hearts back to him. To come to Him, we must forsake our ways and repent ... do an about-face and  change direction. With fallen humanity, it's rare when a sinner repents from the heart. We seem to be sorrier for getting caught than performing the offense or transgression. Thank God when he gets our attention with a Word of reproof. He always has our best interest in mind. Creator God has supernatural authority over our lives. “Supernatural” means that which is above usual and normal ... that which transcends the laws of nature. God is Sovereign and reigns over all. The natural realm is subject to his Word. Nothing is too difficult for God.  

God always allows our “freedom of will”.  He will not force us to turn to Him with a heart of meekness and humility. However, pain, tribulation, reproof, chastisement and corrections are our friends. They show us that we are on a path that is contrary to the path that He's foreordained for us to walk in fellowship with him.  

Let’s continue Michael message on “God’s Sovereign Authority in the next post.

In Christ, Brian