Godly Thinking
*This was originally sent out to the mailing list on 2/2/07*
Hello again,
I wrote a short bit last night, and I thought I would share it with you.
Maybe there is something going on in your life that you have not fully trusted the Lord to take care of? Maybe there is a place where you know God is leading you to do something, but you are hesitant to follow. I sincerely hope that this helps you to step out and trust Him with whatever plans that God has for your life.
Godly Thinking
Do not think sensibly, think godly. To think sensibly is to think only according to man’s intellect – his sense. To think godly is to think according to God’s mind – to think according to the One who knows all, and who has all things in His Hand.
Beloved, do you want to live a sensible life, or a godly life? Was it sensible for Paul, when he was brought before the Romans, to appeal unto Caesar, and go to Rome in chains as a prisoner? (see Acts 25-28) Or for Abraham to leave his own habitation, and to walk out into a foreign land – a country that he did not know? (see Genesis 12) And was Noah being sensible in building an ark – an enormous ark – when there was no rain falling? (see Genesis 6-8) And just think of the immense rewards that came as a result of such insensible, such godly thinking.
Child, is not life more than what you can sense? Can I not do so much more than anything that you could ever think or expect?
You ask for strength to walk a tough path, and I give you wings to fly.
You ask for deliverance from drowning in a rageful sea, and I give you gills, and make you as agile as a fish in the sea.
You ask to be delivered from bondage – from the hand of the oppressor – and I make you not only free, but ruler over your enemy, to be his jail-keeper. (And how do you know that I have not willed this from the beginning? That I have introduced you first as a slave, and then later as a destined conqueror, to show My great power in your redemption.)
In all things, let Me work. Do not think sensibly, think godly. Give Me space to work, for there is a whole nother dimension that you cannot see, nor comprehend as of yet. And yet I see it, and know it, and implore you to trust in Me. In your heart-faith you give Me room and space to work; else I am cramped down to that narrow area called doubt. I cannot fit into this cavity, and from it I will go.
Dear one, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Yet, can’t you see that faith simply shows this outwardly, while doubt hides it? Doubt is a blindfold, and faith is a looking-glass. Look! Behold and see the love that I have in store for you! Do not think sensibly. Think godly and you will see Me.
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