Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 84
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Don’t
you just love Michael’s shocking statements?!?
Accurate, truth, and a shock to our belief system due to erroneous
teaching for years in many circles.
Well, get ready for another one at the start of today’s copy from
Michael’s masterpiece, My Weakness for His Strength.
DAY 199
Maximize Your Joy; Walk In Faith
For we walk by faith, not by sight. –II Corinthians
5:7
I
often say, "When you know the will of God, congratulations! You are an
unbeliever! Abraham went and he knew not. Knowing not and going anyway is faith. Knowing everything
and going takes no faith and is tantamount to unbelief." If we knew the will of God, what
was around every corner, and if we always knew the outcome, how boring would
life be? If we knew everything that was going to happen, our joy would not be
full; in fact, our joy would be stolen. One example is Betty’s and my
need of paying bills. When the money is there, we pay and think nothing of it.
However, when there is no foreseeable way of doing it and we open an envelope
in which is the exact amount needed because the Lord put us on someone’s heart,
I cannot adequately describe the joy this brings. Had we known the check was
coming, would we have had the same joy? If the Prodigal Son's father had always known the son
would return, would his joy have been as great the day he saw him coming down
the road? It is in not
knowing, in walking by faith, that joy is made full.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Well, how did you like that poke in the ribs? Hit close to home, though, didn’t it? When we don’t have a lot of what I call “life
verses” that fundamentally solidify our walk in the Lord, we fall victim to a “walk
by sight” rather than by faith.
I love that story in Hebrews chapter 11 of Abraham “going while not
knowing,” don’t you! So much
encouragement. And Proverbs telling me
that all I have to do is “Trust in the Lord with all my heart, lean not to my own
understanding, acknowledge Him in all my ways, AND HE WILL DIRECT MY PATHS”
(Prov. 3:5-6). Hallelujah!
God’s instructions could not be any more plain and simple than “the just
(righteous) shall live by faith” (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11;
Hebrews 10:38). So why is it that the
vast majority of Christians will not “walk” unless they “see,” instead of
living by faith? Why are so many
defeated because they fear they are “not in the will of God,” or are unsure
just what “the will of God is”? Does
this not put a whole new perspective on the “importance” of the “will of God”?
Michael gives us an excellent illustration (he and Betty paying bills)
of how we can walk trusting God, and find exuberant joy when He shows Himself
strong and faithful to us. And just stop
and think about that famous story of the Prodigal Son…how many have ever
thought of what it would have been like IF the father “had always known the son
would return”…most likely “the rest of the story” would have been quite
different!
God has given us His instructions.
God has given us many illustrations and examples. What more is it going to take to get us to
live by faith, and maximize our joy???
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