Psalm 139 : 1—6 NKJV:
God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man
(1) “O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
(2) You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
(3) You comprehend my path and my lying down.
And are acquainted with all my ways.
(4) For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether
(5) You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
(6) Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.”
“Is peace possible in bad times? Can God truly give the peace that passes understanding in the cancer ward, the bankruptcy court, the funeral home?
Peace is possible only when you accept your adversity. In acceptance there is peace—genuine, deep-seated security. You can experience God’s peace and accept your hardships when you realize that your problems are allowed by God to accomplish His purposes in your life.
What happens to you is not outside God’s power. It is not outside His wisdom. It is not outside His love. Evil may seem to reign, but God overrules evil for His purposes.
Acceptance is not resignation. It is not denial. It is not passivity. It is conscious awareness that your pain, though not authored by God, has been filtered through His sovereignty and providence and will conform you to Christ’s image.
You may never discover until eternity why He permits certain adversities. But they come with His knowledge and permission, and He knows all things perfectly.”
Dr. Charles F. Stanley
Enter His Gates
There are many things, events, situations, and people who will come into and out of your life as you live on this earth. Some of these activities, people, and circumstances will be good and others of them will be bad. You, as an individual,…even as a Christian, will have little, if any, direct involvement in generating the existence of these things. They usually just “show-up” and into your life from “out-of-the-blue.” Such activities can truly make or break you. It all depends on how you react to them and how you handle their resolution.
God tells us in His Word in the Book of Romans, Chapter 8, verses
28—30 NKJV:
(28) “And we know that all things work together for good to
those who love God, to those who are the called according
to His purpose.”
(29) For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be
conformed to the image of His Son that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.
(30) Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called;
whom He called these He also justified; and whom He
justified, these He also glorified.”
You must always remember that God is completely and totally sovereign over everything and everybody who comes into your life while you are here on the earth. You as a believer in Christ, are at all times living and breathing under God’s sovereignty over your life. He has fully approved everything and everybody that happens to you or who comes into your life, whether you like it or not or agree with it or not. Everything and everybody who comes into your life and has an impact, be it good or bad, and has been pre-approved by God Himself. He has allowed these type things to happen to you as a part of His overall “Will” for your life. In other words, everything that happens to you has already crossed God’s desk and been personally approved by Him to happen to you as they are all part of His over-all plan for your life. Once you truly and honestly believe this last statement of truth, you will then be much better able to accept these things and then be better able to handle and mange the positive resolution to such actions because you have great comfort in knowing that God is sovereign and that He never makes a mistake, and that His timing is always correct and perfect. That is what is commonly called having real peace of mind. This is also precisely why God is always telling us to “fear not” within the pages of the Holy Scripture.
You will never be able to fully trust someone whom you do not first know and secondly respect. Therefore knowing Jesus Christ and having a living personal relationship with Him is what is first required. Until you know God personally, you will never be able to learn and come to know what His plan and purpose really is for your life. Do you have such a personal relationship actually in place right now? If you do, great! If you don’t, then you must follow the instruction God gives you in the Holy Bible in the Book of John, Chapter 3, verses 1—7 NKJV:
(1) “There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews,
(2) This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, ‘Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with Him.’
(3) Jesus answered and said to Him, ‘Most assuredly I say to
you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.’
(4) Nicodemus said to Him. ‘How can a man be born when he is
old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and
be born?’
(5) Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is
born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
God.
(6) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is
born of the Spirit is Spirit.
(7) Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ ”
Once you have invited Jesus to come into your own life and become your personal Lord, Master, and Savior and you have completed the process and prayer of salvation, then Jesus will come into your life and guide you and direct your paths and foot-steps in the way that you should go. You will grow in your level of faith and further develop your new personal relationship with Christ. In so doing you will slowly discover God’s will for your life. Whatever happens to you after you have been born again is all part of God’s plan and direction for your life while you are here on earth. Learn to accept the things that happen to you no matter what they are or the impact they have on your life. Just persevere and continue on do the right and righteous things that you know God is giving you to do. Read and feed on the Word of God everyday and grow your personal belief and level of faith as you grow closer to God in your personal relationship. Remember: All things will indeed work together for good…as long as you continue to grow in the Lord, stay positive in your thoughts words, and deeds, and praise God for all that He has done and is doing for you.
God’s Greatest Blessings to All of You……………………..