“All our steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can we understand our own ways?” (Proverbs 20:24)
Solomon poses a wise question in Proverbs 20:24: “If we are going the way God wants us to go, how can we expect to always understand the way we are going?” I believe it is obvious that God is making you an original in an original way.
There isn’t anybody like you and there isn’t supposed to be.
My thoughts turn to six powerful Bible verses: the last four verses of Romans 11 and the first two verses of Romans 12. They tie in with Isaiah 55 and the reality we do not know what God is doing. The profound truth focused is that God is the source of, the power behind, and His glory is the purpose for everything He is doing.
The application in Romans 12 is that you should worship by surrendering your body as a living sacrifice (not a dead one.) Ask God to transform your mind so you think as He does. Then, having met these prerequisites, prove one day at a time that His will for you is good and moves toward spiritual maturity. (This passage is especially good in the Phillips.*)
God is shaping you to be a champion for Christ in dimensions that are far beyond anything you could imagine or even think to imagine! Whatever spiritual help it takes you must master this problem or it will master you. Every time God wants to do a great work like what He is doing in your life, the evil one is there trying to defeat it.
Put on the whole armor of God to defeat what the evil one is trying to do.
Dick Woodward (email, 20 January 2007)
(*J.B. Phillips translation of The New Testament in Modern English)
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