Where have you put God?

Many people, though they believe in God, have put Him in a box. There are times that I have equally done same. The Israelites believed in the coming of the Messiah. Yet they envisaged He was coming in the form of a great King, so missed Him when He was born in a manger, and grew up as a carpenter's son. They put God in a box that He could not fit in.

There are times that we have it all planned and mapped out as to how God ought to move in a particular situation. We expect Him to come from a certain direction, and beat ourselves up when He doesn't.

Martha was beside herself with sorrow. She expected Jesus to hurry to her brother's side when she called. However, God in His infinite wisdom caused Jesus to tarry two more days - So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” John 11:6-7

Martha had miscalculated God's modus operandi. She was feeling let down as a result, when unbeknown to her, Jesus deliberately delayed, in order to buy time to show forth God's Glory. When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” John 11:4

How often do we think God was wrong in His approach? We try to water down our disappointment like the way Martha and Mary did. Yet we wonder why God delayed when He could have hurried to our aid. We ponder on what He could have done differently to save our situation. Although we feel let down by God, we try to stifle our dismay and displeasure by mumbling - "God knows best." When in fact, we inwardly and actually mean  - " We know how best God could have handled this and gained better results."

Isaiah 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

We cannot for a minute read God like a book. His ways are high above our ways. We cannot have Him all figured out, towing our thought line, and conforming to our pattern of doing things, or our pattern of how God should work. We must not place Him in a man-made box, with humanly measured proportions and with earthly furnishings and finishes. He is much bigger and simply will not fit in.

So please let God reign Supreme in His rightful place, far above all powers and principalities. Get rid of the illusional box that you have mentally and in an oblivious manner, placed God in.
Isaiah 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.














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