Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - #
352
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Many folks like Job because they identify with his
“suffering,” yet they do not identify with his “overcoming.” It is the same
with so many trying to “look like” God (in His image) when the “image” is the
trichotomy of mankind, as God is.
Michael takes us to a perspective of God in His
creation of mankind that is so easy to miss, for looking at the wrong things
with the wrong perspective.
DAY
256
The
Autistic God
Remember that you molded
me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like
milk and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me
together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in
your providence watched over my spirit. --Job 10:9-12
I enjoy spending some
time with acquaintances who are autistic; typically those with autism are very unique and, in my
opinion, way beyond the norm for compulsive thinkers. They lock into
something and their minds do not have the ability to shift to anything else.
One friend had locked into turtles; everything was about turtles: must find a
turtle, must hold the turtle, and must examine the turtle. After catching a
turtle, he scanned every section of the turtle, his eyes moving like a computer
scanner. In the end, he put it down and drew a perfect picture of a turtle. He
knew every line and dimple. Now, man is made in the image of God. Look at any
man and you learn a secret or two about God. After watching the man with a
turtle, I had an insight into God. God is Autistic! I could just imagine God
making the turtle, thinking of every detail, locking into it, thinking of
everything, how it would breathe, how it would move, what it would eat, and
creating all that it needed. I could just see God locked in. It was then that I
understood a bit more about the exactness of creation, that every hair of my
head was numbered, and that so much detail had gone into my life. Everything
has been perfect. All of creation is perfect. He has given me exactly--yes,
exactly--what I have needed: in sickness, in health, in poverty, in struggle,
and in stress, everything perfectly!
This brings me to
another point. We see the perfection and how it must work. We cannot change it.
I am often asked, “How can
you believe in a God who allows suffering?” My response is, “How can you
believe in man who causes the suffering?” AIDS is not the judgment of
God; it is the judgment of man. By playing God and refusing to recognize Him
and His perfection, man has done it all, killing many people. God has made us perfectly, and sin
is a foreign resident in the body. All of the glue (Jesus) holding man together will
attempt to repel it. It
is in this condition that man complains about God, and yet everything that has
been permitted into our lives has been the perfect thing, exactly what we need.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
How many ask the wrong question that Michael
points out, instead of the correct one?
How many don’t “see” how God has made us
perfectly, that sin is a foreign resident in our body, and the glue (Jesus)
holding us together?
How many “miss” that everything that has been
permitted into our lives has been the
perfect thing…exactly what we need?
Seems like we need to quit “playing God” and
simply recognize him and His perfection…oh, that is what Michael said.
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