Look At Life From A New Perspective : Jonathan Crabtree
Recently I have been thinking about how we can often put god in a box by coming to god with solutions to our problems rather than the problems themselves. We serve an almighty all-knowing god, he doesn't need our advice, we need to take his and understand that he knows best. God is there to support you in more ways than we can ask hope or imagine, but often our solution comes but we totally mis it because we are so caught up in our solution that we forget why we were even asking for it in the first place. We need to put our mind aside and understand that we don't need to comprehend what god is doing, all we need to do is trust that he will do the best for us and let him work. We can never see the big picture, we are down on earth doing our day to day life and we are trying to understand what god can see when really we don't even have the brain power to even understand a tiny portion of what is going on in his master plan. Charlotte Gambil put this in a great analogy, its like we are pieces of a jigsaw, as hard as we try we can try and fit ourselves together but it will never work, but god sees the full picture, he sees all the pieces and he sees the box lid, the blueprint that he has designed for his church, and for his world, and every time we submit to him, we are one piece closer to making that blueprint a reality. We need to stop trying to comprehend it all and let his will be done, stop giving him advice, but giving him full control so that he can put us in the perfect place, and make us into the men and women of god that he designed us to be.
I pray that you would submit to god this week, that you wouldn't give god the answers to your problems, but the problems themselves, that you would put aside your own understanding, but give it up to god and let him take the wheel so that you can advance through your troubles and live life to the full. Amen.
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