Good vs GOD.
So often the very subtle but deadly threats to your God ordained story are the many good alternatives that will pop up along the way. It takes discipline, wisdom, sheer guts, a lack of a fear of people and a unapologetically surrendered heart that has resolved to abide in unflinching loyalty to GOD to turn down the good things and yes people and choose to focus on God’s plans for you.
I was shocked when I learned that It is entirely possible for something or someone to be good but bad for you for the simple fact that they are outside of God’s revealed Will for you. I learned from personal experience the tolerance for real pain and courage it takes for one to the the position of “if you pitch me anything anti GOD’s word and will for me, I will disappoint you”. That stand right there does NOT go down well with most people. From our limited perspectives living within the confines of time we can asses things, situations and people as good and society might even agree but the key to a life that pleases GOD is choosing His choices for us over ours. I believe that The ‘sons of God’ on the earth right now, especially in this era, much like their older sibling live in this “Not my will but Yours be done” mindset and heart posture militantly applying it as the default mode of operation of their lives. Anything and anyone that’s bad for you according to GOD’s purpose, plans and word is never a trivial matter because the consequences are eternal. Sometimes these decisions have life or death implications but for they most part they affect your quality of life and threaten your walk and relationship with GOD.
I don’t know about you, but the idea of a friendship with God is very exciting to me. Throughout scripture it’s is made abundantly clear that there are conditions to this level of access to The Sovereign of The Universe though. I’m very glad that it is very simply and clearly spelt out with living examples of both people who met this one condition and those who didn’t.
“You are my friends if you do what I command”.
Jesus – John 15:14
Something I’ve more recently discovered is that If satan cannot rob you of an eternal existence with GOD, he will settle for ruining your experience of the fullness of life available in Christ of the wonderful blessings, spiritual and otherwise and I’ve recently learned that his favorite weapon to use against you is yourself. Your disobedience to GOD, your ignorance, your negligence of your relationship with GOD, your careless/foolish openness to willful sin, your bitterness towards people, your fear of setting forth, your lack of clarity on your identity in GOD etc, The enemy wants and hunts for ways to leverage all these things against your life on earth. So I implore you to thoroughly disappoint him starting this year. A solid place to start is to “write the vision, and make it plain that he may run that reads it”.
“I made a decision a while ago that if it’s not GOD’s will for me then I want no part of it. God is not a hands off and distant Father. He is up close and wants to be extremely personal because He understands more than anyone the true nature of life on Earth and wants you to win. I don’t know how much closer you want Him to offer to be with you than being literally inside you by The Holy Spirit. The central question your existence now remains, will you lean in and have the sort of relationship that is not only available to us in Christ but that GOD The Almighty Himself is excited to have with each of us, as His children, everyday for the rest of our lives? If you will commit to lean in from today then you are what we refer to as blessed beyond measure.”
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The Wrap-up.
I have a couple of prayers for you as this year comes to an end.
- I hope that you make a God guided plan and commit to allowing it influence your focus on the future.
- I pray you allow it to navigate you through the range of choices from bad to good to GOD ones which are all guaranteed to keep presenting themselves throughout the remainder your life.
- I pray that you make a resolution to forever pick GOD choices over good choice no matter how appealing they are or who it is that’s been used to present them to you.
- I pray that you yield to The Holy Spirit to set your heart on a picture of the future while thoroughly enjoying the present all as He leads you day by day.
- I pray that you consciously, instinctively and without reservation, allow The LORD to make you dream with Him in color.
God bless you.
