Words Of Encouragment To Start The Day ( Tuesday 10/14/92)

Strange Twist And Turns

Jeremiah 3:20-22 (New Living Translation)
20 But you have been unfaithful to me, you people of Israel! You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
21 Voices are heard high on the windswept mountains, the weeping and pleading of Israel’s people. For they have chosen crooked paths and have forgotten the Lord their God.
22 “My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.”

This weekend there was some events that reminded me of words that were spoken many months ago. The words we sure do take some strange twist and turns rang clear in my head. As the clanging of those words stormed my head and drowned out my very thoughts, I could hear God speaking over the roar of those words, He said not so, it is all about choices that are void of my guidance and direction. As I stood there almost stunned and those words diminished in thin air to the voice of my master, my Father, my heart. What did He mean, why now did he allow me to hear his words. The words came again clearer than the first time. I excused myself to go and have a moment to pray.

So often we want to chalk up the twisting and turning that our lives take to just events, moments in time, but instead God is staying if you would only acknowledge me the strangeness would dissipate and the twist and turns would be something that would become a guided trail, that the Father ( God ) has designed and can lead us through. But without His consultation we do not see the road and the path that has been chosen for us, we say things happen and we learn to lean to our own feelings, thoughts and understanding without much thought, or understanding for the call that God has placed on us. For so many they leave marriages, relationships, jobs, ministries, and situations because they seem challenging, impossible and impossible to grasp or understand. That is primarily because the call of God that has been bestowed upon us is not understood, we do not understand that God has called, anointed and appointed us to this situation; and because we lack understanding we lack commitment and focus. We lack obedience and discipline to do what God has asked of us, which is to seek him first and to operate in the gifting and calling that God is requesting of us.

What is it that we have viewed as a twist or turn in life that was never meant to be that way? What role or call have we decided of our own will and volition to abandon? It is time to come home to God and to His will. It is time to enter into obedience to the call on each one of our lives. Not just because God told us to, but because we love God so much that we want to be in right standing and obedience towards Him, first and foremost!