More and more as I walk with God, my view of God changes. I know He is not changing, but our view of Him must change as we grow in grace. Or else we are not growing or learning ourselves.
The most difficult thing is for the finite to understand even a little, the infinite. We have our life experience living within the confines of time. This is all we know! But God lives outside the confines of time. He created time and put man in it. When He is posseses all knowledge and lives in a very different world unique only to Him. So one of the things that changed in my thinking. If we read an end time prophecy in Daniel, the psalms, Isaiah or Revelation, it isn’t God so much making these things happen! He has already been there and was an eye witness!
When Moses saw the hinder parts of God, from what he saw he could write the 1st five books of the Bible. He saw eternity past, or atleast a glimpse.
When many say God is Sovereign, in their minds this means everything that happens is in His will. A predestined, pre programmed outcome!
In the mind of God, Jesus was crucified before the foundations of the earth.
God before He created anything, even 1 billion years before that, could see today, me sitting here in the Philippines, wearing shorts, a grey shirt, no shoes, writing these very words. This is how Awesome, different and unique He is!
He is Sovereign, but so many things happen are definitely not His will! Rape, abortion, incest, genocide, people dying without Christ. This is the freewill part! God in His foreknowledge predestined us to be conformed to the image of Christ. It is His foreknowledge, seeing what has not yet happened for us in our “time” restriction.
There is so much God is waiting on! So much He would prefer and desires would happen. That none should perish, but all would come to the knowledge of repentance.
God would that the church would mature! To grow up into the fullness of the stature of Christ! His choice of spreading the Good News is through His Church. He commands all of us to go! We are responsible for our generation! But the church is self centered and many cold and could care less some else goes to a real hell.
Go is looking for a willing vessel to work with Him against these things He hates! Inercessors, our time, talents and money for the Gospel.
He works with people. Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Peter, Paul, and you and me!
So His sovereignty is extra special as with all of these variable. People! He will have His way in the end! The big picture is His! He could stop these things, but He gave that authority to the Church.
So thought prevoking Hope.
Thanks and God bless!
Daddy William