...fine tuning
So I was thinking more again today about what I was saying the other day... and what finally came out of all my Musing was... how we human beings always fine tune everything in order to say either what we want to hear.... or rationalize away the things we don't want to hear... we are so incredibly good at this... especially us who happen to be part of the religious community... :)
I spent the first 32 years of my walk with God doing that... not only fine tuning but regularly changing the tune completely to say what I now felt needed to be said. All of it very necessary for me to do... in order to at least stay in intellectual control of my circumstances.... especially since all of the circumstances themselves were flying around hopelessly out of control...
I felt that I desperately needed to be able to explain to others why something was happening in my life... or why something was not happening... especially since I had prayed... prophecied... declared ... and proclaimed to any who would listen...all the wonderful things God was obviously going to do... but didn't..... :)
Do I really need to protect the integrity of God...? I mean is God going to be embarrassed that He didn't do what I think he should do... ? Am I really trying to protect poor little old God...?.... or am I actually the one who is embarrassed.... ? :)
A few years ago.... a wonderful Christian woman... totally involved in her church... had a heart attack... she was rushed to ICU.... failing rapidly... the whole Christian Community was naming and proclaiming her healing... a few days later she died... the tune needed to change... so the call went out that what God really really wanted to do was an even greater miracle than her healing... and He would raise her from the dead... if we all asked and believed... except God didn't... He took her home instead... it was her time...
So the tune changed ....yet one more time.
Think on these things. Maybe... just maybe.... we ought to stop trying to predict everything that God is going to do... 'cause maybe... just maybe... God has a different plan than the one we have for Him...
:)
I spent the first 32 years of my walk with God doing that... not only fine tuning but regularly changing the tune completely to say what I now felt needed to be said. All of it very necessary for me to do... in order to at least stay in intellectual control of my circumstances.... especially since all of the circumstances themselves were flying around hopelessly out of control...
I felt that I desperately needed to be able to explain to others why something was happening in my life... or why something was not happening... especially since I had prayed... prophecied... declared ... and proclaimed to any who would listen...all the wonderful things God was obviously going to do... but didn't..... :)
Do I really need to protect the integrity of God...? I mean is God going to be embarrassed that He didn't do what I think he should do... ? Am I really trying to protect poor little old God...?.... or am I actually the one who is embarrassed.... ? :)
A few years ago.... a wonderful Christian woman... totally involved in her church... had a heart attack... she was rushed to ICU.... failing rapidly... the whole Christian Community was naming and proclaiming her healing... a few days later she died... the tune needed to change... so the call went out that what God really really wanted to do was an even greater miracle than her healing... and He would raise her from the dead... if we all asked and believed... except God didn't... He took her home instead... it was her time...
So the tune changed ....yet one more time.
Think on these things. Maybe... just maybe.... we ought to stop trying to predict everything that God is going to do... 'cause maybe... just maybe... God has a different plan than the one we have for Him...
:)
