The Line Drawn In The Sand…

If you haven’t noticed by now, God has a sense of humor. I promise He is going to make you laugh one day if He hasn’t already! I mean He may even have an Android or Apple “God sense of humor emoji” app that we can all upload onto our smart phones. If not, it wouldn’t be a bad idea! I would not mind splitting the profits and helping with the actual development of the emoji! Nevertheless, unlike our sense of humor, His thoughts and ways aren’t on the platform as ours (Is. 55: 8-9), yet through our capacity to find God in the circumstance we feel unbeneficial for us, He warrants it, the circumstance, as credible for His good will toward us and downright unbelievable to the unbelievable. Furthermore while it doesn’t feel “funny” to us to go through what He wants us to go through, I believe God, in His sense of humor has fun in His majestic nature crafting a plan of provision for us because what The Master decides to inject in His quest for our lives require only His interpretation (Gen. 40:5-8). He is God, He knows what’s best for us. We might not appreciate the work done behind the scene that connects His humor to our dilemma, but in order to justify the blessing received of God, in due time we have to come with the point that possessing thick skin is necessary (Ps. 66: 10-12). There is so much that is already made available for us in what we don’t realize or even consider! He might just be setting you up! Me up! All of us up for an unbelievable blessing we will not have room enough to receive because we didn’t occupy the space in the room long enough to possess the blessing for ourselves. We didn’t believe God for it. We entertain the idea that “God is taking too long”. Have you ever felt that way? That God was taking too long to bless you or to come through? I sure hope I am not the only one that periodically become manipulated into this low place of thinking. Having “low place” thinking will eventually escort us to a reality that we now have allowed our circumstances to speak louder than the God that allowed the circumstance in the first place for His purpose (whatever that might be, we are all called differently).We must never forget it is our Scholastic God who is The Potter of us, the clay, and it is He that has pre-calculated the things necessary for the restructure of our failures (failure to us as humans trying to understand failure in the eyes of God) that it might resemble Him in integrity, intuition, influence and identity. Can you dig it? This is our calling though, believe it or not, to look like God. Uncouth in the presentation to accept a reality misfitted for what makes sense to us; in the end it is the uncomfortable reality that failure is indeed an option for both God and us. Failure is good enough to become a top performer within God’s system of making us believe in Him, and for many making us believe again! It is important to God so don’t let your lack of understanding it mistreat it because it, the failure that is, could come back to mistreat you if you are not careful! Failure is a justifiable conclusion that admits through our behavior that we are only human and that we are built on purpose to make mistakes! Yet because many times we aren’t operating on the same frequency of God (although we all have been equipped from day one with every tool imaginable to resemble God) consequently we have forfeited that image for one modified to our specifications because of sin. Blinded to a similar model never justified by God sin marred the image of God concerning man (both male and female). Have you ever had a cake smashed on your face? If you haven’t I’m here to tell you that you will not look the same after the smashing! I think I should throw this in as well that you will not feel the same way you did prior to the smashing! Our failure to look like God becomes the substratum to the meaning of life. What on Earth are we here for? What is the purpose of life? Why am I the way that I am? The way we live our lives provide the definition to life itself. So as you can see not having these much needed answers hurt us in our attempt to live the life we are meant to discover these answers in. While many will provide a plethora of meaningful and rational answers, one thing is for sure, our lives were built to look like God. So then, lets keep it one hundred, how do we mask our fleshly fulfillments of a life that we should not be associated with? Why do we do this? How do we discover within our own self indulgence that sin is not the identity God wants for us even though we are attracted to sin? Sin is fun you know! Or maybe you are so spiritual that sin has never bored you enough to fall victim to sin. Not me! Ha! You now have something to pray about concerning me and a host of other flawed lovers of God. There is a reason why people have issues removing the shackles of sin. It is fun, and it is also consequential. Nevertheless, how do we deal with the concept of failure as many times being perceived as the risky requirement of God without falling victim to the failure and a life of perpetual preplanned sin? How do we recognize that our behaviors silently scream for help because we have a legitimate need but we are stuck in an illegitimate place? All of these are good questions that we all should dive into carefully to optimize the light God grants us to look for the authentic defining moments that life provides meaning through. Never mistakenly assume our deficiencies discovered aren’t valued by God. Our deficiencies are God’s opportunities to challenge our reasonings for rejecting His goodness and bypassing His image for another, even if God planned it and or permitted it through our ignorance. Don’t allow our deficiencies to immobilize our efficiencies in pursuing God’s opinion regarding our matters of life.