When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. New Living Translation 1 Corinthians 13:11-12
Are you “growing through” what seems to be an impossible situation? We know everything is possible with God and sometimes, even knowing this adds frustration to a seemingly impossible circumstance. We know God can, yet when nothing seems to be happening in our situation, so we grow restless. Surrender really alleviates this frustration and anxiety as we wait on God. It is good for us to surrender all of our presuppositions, preplans, assumptions, rationalizations, pretty much empty our mind and look to God to fill it, with His Thoughts in His Way. Don’t have a solution in sight? God’s got this if not now then when He decides to come out of the unseen where He has been purposefully working, to presenting a great solution in the seen, that is good for us and brings glory to His Kingdom. God is on the move and He is never not working towards the best endgame. God is the solution.
There is so much about God that purposefully works in our situations in the unseen. We only see in part and therefore we are judging God with a partial, finite viewpoint when we question Him asking Him where is He and is He working on a solution. God’s powerful purposes that are infused with His justice, fairness, wisdom, provision, truth and love, are all swirling together very purposefully to create an endgame that we could not even begin to hope for or imagine. I wonder if we by our complaining in the trial, comparing what we want with what is happening, criticizing God for what He is not doing, keeps us from really seeing what He is purposefully doing and I wonder also if we hamper the flow of the God’s purposes by complaining and doubting Him.
“My questioning one, you may not see the perfect picture today, but in My heavenly hindsight, I have finished it and it is good. My ways are sovereign and mysterious and I choose to give you just enough piece of My plan to keep you motivated; challenging you without overwhelming you. Even so, the puzzle may never fit together on earth as it does in heaven.” Excerpt From The Bridegroom’s Voice By KimberlyMac
We have to get off our high horse platform that only sees a worldly viewpoint, step down off of our shaky platform of personal pride and step up on the firm foundation of a kingdom perspective. We don’t really know what we “think we know”, and these very assumptions are what feed our doubt creating a very chaotic soul. Do we truly believe that God is working in the unseen? Do we truly believe He has a good endgame already figured out in our situation? Do we truly believe He is purposefully working all kinds of kingdom good into the solution? Yes, purposefully so God is creating and designing in us many infinite God characteristics, as He works out our finite solution! God is hoping we would stop our complaining and get all in with Him in prayer, trust and faith.
How things look from your worldly viewpoint is not a good way to judge a situation. Solution is the key word. God is the solution to every problem, trial and life puzzle we are trying to piece together. God holds the pieces in His hands and He places them purposefully in the seen when they have the most Kingdom impact. He sees the completed puzzle; we only see pieces with lots of holes and no discernable pattern. God has a plan. Will we trust Him with the pieces of our life that are still unseen? God has a beautiful life picture all planned out. Can we wait on Him, trusting Him to work it out, purposefully and with great skill, power and perfection? We should watch in faithful prayer, wait in joyful hope and then we will see the glory of God shatter the darkness and the solution miraculously come forth in the best timing ever. God is amazing. How can we doubt Him? Shake off the doubt and embrace the Solution, Jesus Christ.
We do only see in part. I know we can all agree on that and we all have experienced the tension, anxiety and fear of only seeing in part. Maybe it is time to experience a new thing as we cling to God and dig our life roots deeply in His Kingdom, knowing Him, trusting Him and waiting expectantly with great joy at the work of His hand in our lives. Are you in? Let go of all the anxiety, fear and doubt and cling to God, and let’s enjoy this great God Adventure of our today, knowing He’s got us. Let be of the situation, step back from it, hands off of it, and be still and know He is God, He is the Solution. Why do you get so upset over God’s ways, He told us they would not be like our ways, just let go of the way there and embrace the Way-Maker God in followship of Him. Wholly-Holy Align.
“My Bride, shake off the anxiety and rise above the clamor of these unsettled days and see beyond your panic into My steadfast eyes. Fully face your AWE-GOD! Today, I ask you to totally surrender the helm of your life to Me and let Me chart your course. Let your first call be to Me. Abide in My love. Oh, My beautiful church, I love you. How I long for you to love Me intimately and trust Me completely. I implore you to remember My faithfulness. My authentic love is certified by the many promises I have made and kept. What I say I do. What I speak, is.” Excerpt: The Bridegroom’s Voice, KimberlyMac
It is possible, everything is possible with God! Pray It Up! I pray by the power of His Holy Spirit that His justice, His fairness, His favor powerfully reigns in every situation of your life and His purposes in play are unhindered and worked out according to His perfect, sovereign will. Precious Jesus, Savior, Redeemer we look to You and in our very tough life situations, we let go of all preconceived ideas because we are limited by what we see, we only see in part and You see in full. Equip us with the knowledge we need for this day, give us the discernment we need in each situation to make the right choice the first time. Father God, You are our Provider and perfectly, purposefully so, You are our Way-Maker and we look to You first, in all of our life situations. Jesus, You are the Solution, the solution and the powerful execution of all the provision, purposes and promises of the Father God and we ask You to be the miraculous influence in every negotiation that takes place in the situations that we are “growing through”. Holy Spirit, we surrender to You, and humbly submit the story of our lives to Your penning, and we ask You to be at the center of all of our goings and comings, making a way of provision for us in the powerful name of Jesus our Proven, Holy Spirit our Prover and Father God, our Proof. AMEN!
Thanks so much for stopping into The Bridegroom’s Café. There are a lot of people that God connects me divinely with to pray for and to encourage them, pointing them to dependence on Him and to the power of His Word. I call it prayer mentoring. The Prayer Mentor table is one of our specialty spiritual menu and we hope it fed your soul well. Make sure you share it with others, so they too can nourish their soul today as they listen up to The Bridegroom’s Voice. God bless you, MUCH, KimberlyMac