Wednesday 25 January 2012
God wants to give you His best! The Bible says every good and perfect gift is from above. (Jas.1:17). Many believe that God gives us only the best, but do not realize that God’s best may not always be the same as what we consider to be the best. God’s thoughts are higher than ours, His ways are higher than ours. In His infinite wisdom, He may choose to give us something truly wonderful yet it is not something we want. For instance, the Lord told Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh, but Jonah refused and ran in the opposite direction. Jonah could not reconcile the fact that God could love the sinful people of that city. He forgotten that his wisdom and understanding of God are at best limited. Like Jonah, sometimes we forget that too. We think just too highly of ourselves and we think that our definition of “God’s best” is always correct. For instance, many believers actually think that all material blessings are good and perfect gifts from the Lord. If that were the case, Jesus would have chosen the material blessings offered to him by the devil during the 40-day fast in the wilderness! Many believers today would blindly do just that! This is how I see it. Material blessings that compromise our devotion and service to God are not of the Lord. For me, that’s the litmus test. As you begin your walk with God today, submit the desires of your heart to the Lord. Don’t let your desires rule you and dictate how you live, instead desire the pure Word and purposes of God. Ask God for revelation in every situation, so that your understanding of God’s best aligns with what is truly God’s best. Know that He who began a good work in you will complete it. Enjoy Him, love Him, serve Him.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa.55:9)
Pastor Barnabas Chong
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Timely encouragement and reminder for me. Thank you.