Wednesday, June 29, 2011

God never tries to be us

What have you done by faith for someone else recently? Was it a success? Were you able to feel and understand the rightness of it all?

God tells the prophet Zechariah in the fourth chapter of the prophet's writings a message to give to Zerubbabel, who was to become the governor of Jerusalem and founder of the second temple: "You can't force these things. They only come about through my Spirit. ... Does anyone despite this day of small beginnings?"

It's enough to know that everything we do for God that is a success comes about because we are doing it with God, or perhaps even more clearly we are doing it because God is with us.

Paul asks in Romans 8, "If God be for us, who can be against us?"

God brags in scripture only when needed, but when He does, goodness it's good smack--talk. He is the one who does it all for us. As He tells Job in the 39th chapter a lot of things about his power, including 5 “Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who untied its ropes?
6 I gave it the wasteland as its home,
the salt flats as its habitat.
7 It laughs at the commotion in the town;
it does not hear a driver’s shout.
8 It ranges the hills for its pasture
and searches for any green thing.

God is God. We are not. God never mistakenly thinks He is us. We often think we are God. That is what separates us from the other.

 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy? "

Who indeed?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I truly believe God has called me to be a server whether it is to animal or human. I didn't realize this until the past couple of years when I thought about those I had taken care of. It's a hard job as we usually lose them but if it is not God calling I don't know what else it could be. Love, June

Unknown said...

Amen to that.