Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 258
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How
many people have ever said, “If I was God…”?
Of course that is a desire to have His power, without having His
pressure. Pressure? Well, look at what Michael gives us in this
day’s writing…
DAY
170
It
Is Easier To Be Man Than To Be God!
He
has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their
heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the
beginning even to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to
rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; moreover, that every man who eats and
drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God. I know that everything
God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is
nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. That
which is has been already, and that which will be has already been, for God
seeks what has passed by.
--Ecclesiastes 3:11-15
I remember as a child wanting in the
worst way a little motor scooter. As soon as my boys were big enough, I made
sure that they got one. Fathers
delight in helping their sons and even sharing in the accomplishments of their
sons. I have known more than one man who, not having a father himself,
was driven to be the best father possible. In short, loving fathers busy themselves with attempts to
make life easier for their sons than it was for them. Could it be that God is
also this way? Could it be that the life God has for me is actually better than
His? It boils down to this: Is it easier to be man than to be God? Look at the life of God. Man has never really paid for sin;
God has been picking up that tab all along. His creation sins and He
pays. The ultimate payment came when His only begotten Son died. God has taken all of the
responsibility to cause things to work together for the good, to take what He
has made and redeem it in every possible way. He is putting together a
grand jigsaw puzzle. All of
the pressure is on Him. Would you really like to be God? To experience
for one day what it is like to be driven by pure love? Could you bear up under
His sorrow? Would you have the wisdom to govern? I have concluded that my life as a son is much easier
than my Father’s. I
think I simply need to enjoy my inheritance. I am going to rest and appreciate
the benefit from all of His work.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Ecclesiastes may be one of the least read and least studied books of the
Bible. Why? It is a challenging look at life, of which
many choose to walk away from. But in
it, particularly in today’s text, God makes some very definite Life-giving
statements.
Look at these uncomplicated declarations from God:
“He has made everything appropriate in its
time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find
out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.”
“I know that there is nothing better for them
than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; moreover, that every man who
eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God.”
“I know that everything God does will remain
forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it,
for God has so worked that men should fear Him.”
Wow!
That is some kind of work God has done!
It doesn’t take but just a brief moment of
thinking about my answers to Michael’s questions right before the end…and to
make the same conclusions Michael has made.
And to rejoice and soak on the writer’s premise: “it is the gift of God.” Well, amen.
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