For thought and meditation

[rl69]

When Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples…He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities. MATTHEW 11:1
He comes where He commands us to leave. If you stayed home when God told you to go because you were so concerned about your own people there, then you actually robbed them of the teaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all the consequences to God, the Lord went into your city to teach, but as long as you were disobedient, you blocked His way. Watch where you begin to debate with Him and put what you call your duty into competition with His commands. If you say, “I know that He told me to go, but my duty is here,” it simply means that you do not believe that Jesus means what He says.
He teaches where He instructs us not to teach. “Master…let us make three tabernacles…” (Luke 9:33).
Are we playing the part of an amateur providence, trying to play God’s role in the lives of others? Are we so noisy in our instruction of other people that God cannot get near them? We must learn to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants to instruct us regarding His Son, and He wants to turn our times of prayer into mounts of transfiguration. When we become certain that God is going to work in a particular way, He will never work in that way again.
He works where He sends us to wait. “…tarry…until…” (Luke 24:49). “Wait on the Lord” and He will work (Psalm 37:34). But don’t wait sulking spiritually and feeling sorry for yourself, just because you can’t see one inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our own spiritual fits of emotion to “wait patiently for Him”? (Psalm 37:7). Waiting is not sitting with folded hands doing nothing, but it is learning to do what we are told.
These are some of the facets of His ways that we rarely recognize.

[Markopolo]

wow... that is some message..

[Boaz]

It's a given fact that we are impatient creatures . We have to listen . Good lesson Ronnie .

[Blackwater]

Thanks, RL. This is real "meat," and not milk. I can't help but wonder just how many people these days really hear God when He does His best to speak to them? As the world grows increasingly inert to what God has left us to think about, and more and more attentive to their own appetites, we decay at an ever increasing rate. But those who still listen to and follow Him are still with us, even if all around them are deaf to it all. It's a lot like Noah's situation, so long ago. I am constantly humbled that God has kept me close, even when I was doing my best to wrest away from Him. Truth be told, I always knew my place. I was just struck by the wanderlust that leads so many of us astray. Do we serve an awesome God or what?