If God is a God of order, why aren’t so called believers lives orderly?

Let us say you open the closet of your life, and it is piled with “stuff”.  When you open that door of your life to God, He can rearrange it.  Example:  If you get up in the morning and open that closet door to your life to God.  He then has the opportunity to say, “Get rid of this, and keep this. Put this in, take this out.  Move this here and lay this there.”  

If you keep that door shut, or you just keep piling more stuff in, that closet is never going to get orderly.   It is just that simple and it is up to you!

When in a Relationship:

When you are in a relationship with someone, what do you want from him or her?  What do you hope for?  To have a relationship with someone (spouse, child, friend) it takes time.  It takes spending time with them.  It doesn’t take gifts; it doesn’t take anything, but time spent together!  It takes time without outside interference, and it takes time alone with no one else tagging along.  It takes - alone time!

God wants us to realize that our homes, our children, our jobs everything that we have is His.  However, God wants our time!  Without time spent with God there is NO relationship with Him!  When God has our time, He has everything else!  God does not expect this, He does want this, and He hopes for it.  But He does not even count on this!  How sad is that?

People must understand that there is NO other way to walk in obedience.  We must spend time with God!  Noah could never have gotten the type of instructions he needed to have to build an ark if he did not know how to hear God!  If he had not spent time with God, he would not have been able to do what he did for God.  It took time spent!  Where would we all be if he had not listened?

Jesus could not have carried out what he did on this earth unless he spent time with God!  And where would we be if He had not?   We must want God for who He is and not what we want Him to be!

A Working Principle:

It is one thing to say you love God, it is quite another to follow Him in obedience!  Let me say this . . . if you are looking for a smooth life, you better look in another direction, because the life on the narrow road - is not it!  It is a life of sacrifice because it “ain’t about you”!  If you are looking for a life where you can have lots of fun - it is not this one!  If you are looking for a life, where you can have a bunch of friends and go out to eat all the time and take long vacations and be stroked by people; this isn’t what you are looking for!  And if that is the case - then you are coming after God for the - WRONG REASONS!  The age-old question is being asked once again, and here it is: Do you want God to have His way in your life?  If you do, here is the working principle: Obey, and He Gets His Way!

It is NOT Bondage:

Freedom is obedience, obedience is freedom!  Walking in obedience is not bondage, it is freedom!   To walk in freedom, one needs to “HEAR” God’s voice.  Without hearing God’s voice, walking each day is - guess work!  Without hearing God’s voice, one cannot get direction for the day.  It is important to God to direct your steps each day.  God wants to direct each area of your life.

The Master needs to tell the His servant what to do with his or her time.   The servant’s time is not his or hers, it is the Master’s!  Therefore, the Master, having bought and paid for the servant, (I Corinthians 6:20) He has the right to tell him what to do.  This is freedom, from the responsibility for the day because it belongs to the Master!  The only responsibility the servant has is to follow direction – and obey!  If the servant is following directions and something goes wrong during the day, whose responsibility, is it?  It is the Master’s!

Will the servant make mistakes?  Yes, but the loving Master gives room for error.  When a mistake is made, the servant must repent and believe that the Master has forgiven them.  The servant then must get direction from the Master on how to do it better next time. Then the servant must go on in joy and in peace, knowing that their relationship with the Master is simply - fine!

Are we to strive to be perfect?  Yes!  For the Master told us, “Be ye perfect, as I AM perfect”.

Remember:  We human beings will make mistakes, but the Master in His marvelous love, gives us room for error.  There is no room for guilt, nor fear!  Because, we are loved perfectly, all we must do is - trust and believe in the Master.

Why?  Because, the responsibility is on the Master, not on the servant!  All the servant must do is choose - to trust and obey!  

“Trust and obey for there is no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”

The Father Knows Best:

“So then, since we are surrounded  by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment – that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement – and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us, looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua – who in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Yes, think about him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you won’t grow tired or become despondent.  You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in the contest against sin.”   (JNT) Hebrews 12:1-4

How do you treat God?  What is your heart attitude toward God?  What is a proper heart attitude toward God?  How can we be sure that our heart attitude and our heart intention stays true to what it should be in our relationship with God?  What do you expect from God?  Ask God if you in any way attempt to manipulate Him.

People want God to do, do, do for them.  And while they are wanting God to do, do, do for them, they are at the same time looking for whether somebody is right on with God or not.  How do they go about that?  They will judge whether somebody is right with God or not, by whether they have something encouraging to say to them or not!  That is “so” not what God is about!

We have so few examples of Jesus on this earth. (John 21:25) But what we need to understand is that in the Bible, there are very few examples of Jesus giving people individual words.  What did Jesus do?  He pointed people to God!  He gave them encouragement to go to God and get with Him; and get their life straightened out.

I have to say MOST People do not want God for the right reasons.  People want God in their lives to fix their problems, handle their difficulties, and to give them what they think they need!

Until an individual comes to realize that God isn’t handling their difficulties, and until they realize, they are not getting what they think they need, they are not going to want God for the right reasons!

There are people who think they can go around doing what they want to, and then they expect God to come in and rescue them out of their problems and fix their insecurities.  What they are really doing is wanting God to play, “Fairy God Mother”!  That is exactly what many, people think is going to happen!  It is a mindset, it is a type of thinking, and it is a mentality!

Have you ever heard statements like this: God is in control!  God is in control; He will work it out!  God is in control of that, He will take care of it!  I ask you what kind of talk is that?

For someone to think that all they must do is go about their life doing what they think is right, and all the time saying God is in control; or to say God will work it out - they are off!

People create messes in their lives by making their own decisions according to their wants and desires and then they “expect’ God to bail them out of the mess!  Who is the servant here?  

 

God Is Not Our Janitor:

 

God is not our janitor!  There are times situations cannot be fixed!  We must come to understand that!  So, to have that type of mentality of always saying, “Oh, God is in control, He will work it out”, is stupid!  God is not our janitor!  If He were that would make Him a servant, and He is NOT a servant!

Let me make something perfectly clear here.  Until we are walking in a true obedience, there is no guarantee that God can work something out when we make a mistake!

Make no mistake even if we go to God for every major decision that does not guarantee we are never going to make a major mistake!  However, it minimizes it!  But it does not prevent major mistakes completely, because everything counts!  Big things and little things count.  Little things can impact in a big way and big things can impact in an exceedingly small way!  There is no way to say this is important and this is not!  Only God can tell you those things!  But like I said, when you begin to walk in a true obedience, then and only then can mistakes be fixed in your life!

We are the servants, not God!  We must come to understand that!  Some things just cannot be fixed!  We must allow God into our lives through His Son Jesus!  He has the answers, we do not!  What an insult to God for us to think we can go around not asking Him what He wants us to do in each aspect of our life!  And then when we royally mess up, we say things like, “God is in control, He will work it out” That is baloney!  What God abuse we have working in our lives when we walk in this type of mentality!  Never forget: God is only in control of those things in our lives we allow Him to be in control of!

If you are only asking God three or four times a day what you should be doing, and how you should be doing it, then you are not where God needs you to be at this time in your growth with Him.

Jesus did not come to this earth to do His will, so what makes us think we are here to do what we want?  “For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.”  (NIV) John 6:38

Who is the servant here?:

God wants to build healthy families, and healthy people.  A healthy family is something that you cannot get anywhere but from God.  A healthy confidence without pride is something you cannot get anywhere but from God.  Financial success Satan can give you!  Fancy cars, a big house Satan can give you that!  A good job Satan can give you that!  All that “stuff” that is all material stuff from the world, but he cannot give you a healthy family, and he cannot give you a solid marriage.  He cannot give you confidence without pride, and he cannot give you a good relationship with your children.  He can only give you - worldly blessings.

There are individuals out there, and they are being encouraged to seek God for their needs, desires, wants and this and that.  But they are not being taught enough of the truth or enough of how to seek God in order that they can grow to succeed in their Salvation. They are basically failing, and it is not because they are failures.  It is because they have been set up to fail!  Wrong teachings and wrong perspectives!  Many of us were taught that way!

I have said over and over, this is - not instant breakfast!  This is - not a quick lube job!  Life holds many different issues for us, and our heart can change on this issue, or that issue.  But that does NOT mean we have had a whole heart attitude change about God.

(sw-h)

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