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Michael
takes us further in understanding the “facts” of our past life: “God permits
what He could prevent.” See if there is
an experience of great freedom and peace becoming yours when you realize God really is “IN CONTROL” of life, and
that sometimes means His permitting of something happening in our life that we
“wish” would have never happened.
DAY 86
Facts Revisited
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your
own understanding. –Proverbs 3:5
Now I must go one
step further in discussing facts. God permits what He could prevent. "And this we shall do, if
God permits" (Hebrews 6:3). We quickly and easily praise God for all that
He prevents. Any of us could have died in a car accident by now had He not
prevented it. He has prevented and protected us from so much. We thank Him.
However, there is something that takes much more faith: Can we thank Him for what He has permitted?
How often we have heard people say, "How could a loving God allow such a
tragedy to happen?" Maybe we have said it ourselves. If God were to pull us aside and
ask the following question, how would we answer? "I AM is going to permit
a failure in your life, your child's life, or in the life of your mate. Will
you praise Me still? I will use the failure, not fight it; will you praise Me
still?" What if we were asked this question the day before our or
our family's failure in the past, present, or future? What would we say? I am
not saying that God causes evil, but it is permitted. Can we praise Him for
what is permitted? Can we see Him at work in it, or do we only see ourselves? The fact is that God hates sin, but
there is another fact: He uses it. "And the Law came in that the
transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the
more" (Romans 5:20). What if God said, "I will allow your child to
fail. I will use it. May I have his purity, the perfect life you wanted for him,
and the life free of struggle you desired? I will permit and use the loss of
those things to bring the child to Me”? He allows what He could prevent. Can we
agree with His allowing? Can we let Him allow? Do we live to and for the facts, wanting to prevent all
that brings people to Christ? Do we want to prevent facts? Are we angry
about the facts? This does not just apply to our families. He has permitted so
much in world events, past and present. Can we praise Him, the I AM, for what He in His wisdom
permitted? Praising Him
for what is permitted is the first step.
We also need peace
with the facts of our failures and the failures of others. We need peace in the
unexpected turn of events. Where do we find peace? The same place that I AM
found it. Remember, after looking at the facts, the LORD said, "I will
blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals
to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made
them" (Genesis 6:7). God saw the facts and needed peace! Again, where did
He find it? Jesus! "Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He
carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
the chastening for our well-being {fell} upon Him, and by His scourging we are
healed" (Isaiah 53:4, 5). What grief? The grief that God had for making
us! What sorrow? The sorrow that God had after making us! Jesus carried it all
and in Him, God had peace. Where
will we find peace with the facts of our behavior and the behavior of others,
past, present, and future? In Jesus! He is our Peace. Ephesians 2:14, "For He Himself is our
peace, who made both {groups into} one, and broke down the barrier of
the dividing wall."
What is as big as an
elephant but weighs nothing? The elephant's shadow. Facts weigh nothing in the light of Jesus! I do
not care about the facts! I have peace! I have Jesus! I am ready to press on in
the great I AM!
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Meditate on these great statements
in today’s writing:
God permits what He could prevent.
Can we thank Him for what He has permitted?
If God were to pull us aside and ask the following question, how would
we answer? “! AM is going to permit a
failure in your life, your child’s life, or in the life of your mate. Will your praise Me still? I will use the failure, not fight it; will
you praise Me still?
The fact is that God hates sin, but there is another fact: He uses it.
Do we live to and for the facts, wanting to prevent all that brings
people to Christ?
Can we praise the I AM, for what He in His wisdom permitted?
Praising Him for what is permitted is the first step.
Where will we find peace with the facts of our behavior and the behavior
of others, past, present, and future? In
Jesus! He is our peace. Eph. 2:14, “For He Himself is our peace...”
Facts weigh nothing in the light of Jesus!
In light of all this, do you have
peace? If not, why not?
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