Coffee Break
"Did You
Ask?"
"Call unto me, and I will answer
thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Jeremiah
33:3
Someone who I am close to has been calling me for
weeks to help give them some advice for a situation they are in. They
have a decision to make and the time is getting short- they have to make it
within just a matter of days. I asked her yesterday what was she hearing
from the Lord in prayer about this matter. She told me that she really
hasn't prayed about it. This amazes me! She is a very godly woman
and even teaches the Bible-- the same Bible that tells her not to lean to
her own understanding but to acknowledge the Lord in all her ways; the same
Bible that says that it's not in a man to direct his own steps; the same Bible
that says that there is a way that seems right unto a man but the end is
destruction; the same Bible that says, "Without Me, you can do
nothing."
There is a two-fold message in this word this
morning: 1) Be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. It
does you no good to just know what it says, be able to quote it or teach it's
principals to others. The benefit is in the application- in doing what it
says, acting upon it, following it's instructions. The second is- you
should never try to make decisions without the council of God. My friend
keeps asking me what she should do-- I don't have any more of a clue than she
does unless I seek the Lord for an answer. We (none of us) just don't
know what's the best thing to do, we just don't have the answers, we just cannot
make wise decisions on our own, we are so finite- confined to the knowledge of
the moment- unable to see down the road, see the outcome or see the avenues
that are hidden from our view. So it's no wonder she doesn't know what to
do--- "you have not, because you ask not".
Let me combine the two messages into one word
briefly: Look to God's word and apply it to every situation and
decision you are faced with- no matter how big or small it may be- because you
don't have what it takes to make the right choices on your own.... but He does,
and He will show you as you "seek Him first."
Have a great day. Are you trying to make
decisions on your own? You can't do it!
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