“Don’t Leave God Out”

It’s been my experience of making the same mistake times over. What would that be? When God reveals the mandate He has for my life and gives me a glimpse of what’s to come related to His purpose for my life, I do a few things. I agree with His plan and take off running in my own strength and limited understanding without all the details. Meaning, I say “yes to the Lord;” and step into what He spoke to my heart without all the specifics and working parts. I take off like a jet without the map of how everything fits together or lines up, void of the necessary steps. I don’t know what all is involved nor who I need to involve, I just forge away. In doing so, I crash and burn, delay the process, maybe cause some wreckage of people’s lives being a novice. Unintentionally, yet the fact still remains.

As The Lord has begun to revive the hearts, spirits (Is 57:15) and lives of His people; one thing God is emphasizing is “doing things His way.” That means waiting on God; acknowledging Him in all our ways whereas He shall direct our paths (Pr 3:6) ; we need to become teachable (Ps 32:8; Jn 14:26)) instead of moving in our human ingenuity.

The Lord pointed out the root of my problem as to why I got ahead of Him is because I was accustomed to figuring life out on my own. It was foreign to have someone give me guidance and instruction. Therefore, I equated God to my parents; which were not emotionally available for me. Therefore, I had no expectation that God would be there for me as well. Let alone, that Jesus would be there for me when I call on Him or answer me if I had questions or a need. That said, because all behavior is “learned behavior;” I learned to take things in my own hands and lean to my own understanding because all I had was me. 

I had to learn and am yet learning that “the Father” is nothing like that. Jn 14;7-9 Many of us don’t know “the Father” because we haven’t allowed ourselves to know Jesus in an intimate way. As Father is re-parenting me and I’m learning how to have a loving, personal, intimate relationship with Him; and that I can have expectations of Him. He says in His word, “my soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him” (Psalm 62;5, King James Version). Furthermore, if I wait on Him I know He will come and answer; I know He will instruct and guide me. Psalm 32:8 reads “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you [who are willing to learn] with My eye upon you” (Amplified Version). Now don’t get me wrong, my parents did their best, and did what they knew to do. You see, my parents grew up in an era that parents did not form certain bonds with their children; we were seen and not heard, the buddy buddy thing, or parents being friends with their children was not happening. This is something the Spirit of Truth revealed to me and it enabled me to have forgiveness and compassion toward them; which is another story for another time.

Anyway, once accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, as a born-again believer; what happened before coming to Christ doesn’t work well after becoming a child of God. Our heavenly Father is nothing like our parents first of all. Secondly, He wants us as His children to have a personal, loving, intimate relationship. He is not at all aloof and He takes pleasure in us learning and knowing Him through His Son, Jesus Christ; God loves that! So remember, don’t leave God out.

God bless you,

Sis Bea