God thinking XI - Tough Truths 7

"To trust God is to trust God and has nothing to do with the outcome in the physical.  God allows all of us to grow old and die, despite our diet, belief system, or religious affiliation, because there is more.

2 Corinthians 5:1-7

“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building with God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 

V2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.

V3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

V4 for we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

V5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

V6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

V7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

 

It is easy to take a short walk with Jesus.  After all our first exposure to the supernatural is exciting as we experience the power of Almighty God running through our body and mind.

But not many choose the day to day walk where you get to see the long term goal for your life; The broader picture.  The long walk reveals to you a better view of how God works among His people.  The long walk requires faith as your witness to the miraculous.  The long walk makes you wise and trusting of Almighty God.  The long walk trusts the outcome to the hands of the creator.  The long walk doesn’t need for everything to go your way, it doesn’t need constant proof that God can and is doing mighty exploits.  The long walk trusts God as God and is secure in being a child of God, trusting the Father, despite the outcome, despite the circumstances.

The outcome of your faith must be, NOT MY WILL, BUT THY WILL, OH GOD.

 

Excerpt from God Thinking XI - Tough Truths by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2012