Tag: God’s will

Morning Musings: Judges 6:36-37

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“Then Gideon said to God, ‘If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor.  If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.'”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

Gideon’s fleece has become synonymous with testing God.  And that’s exactly what Gideon was doing.  But, far from anything praiseworthy or worth imitating, this was an act of faithlessness by a man who was a coward. Read the rest…

Morning Musing: James 4:15

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“Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.'”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

How do you make plans?  How attached to those plans are you?  What James offers here is a reminder that all of our plans must be made contingent on what the Lord has planned.  All of them.  We can strive for whatever we want, but nothing will happen that He does not allow for some reason.  The question then becomes: What does God have planned? Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Jeremiah 43:2

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“Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, ‘You are telling a lie.  The Lord our God did not send you to say, “Do not go to Egypt to live there…”‘”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

The people of Israel who hadn’t been taken off to Babylon as captives or killed in the process were scared.  The options before them didn’t seem good at all.  Some of their leaders had murdered the governor the Babylonians had put in place to rule over them.  They feared retribution was coming and would be painful when it arrived.  The various nations around them not only didn’t want to help, but were actively antagonistic toward them.  The only option that seemed to make sense was to head to Egypt in hopes that by coming as refugees from their mutual enemies in Babylon, they would be received graciously and not as a hostile force. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: 1 Chronicles 17:4

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“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.'”  (ESV – Read the chapter)

Sometimes the thing we most want to do for God He doesn’t have planned for us to do.   This is never an easy place to be.  We have a vision for something that we are convinced will be honoring of God and we are even committed to it for His sake, not the advancement of our own ego.  But every time we start to move toward making it a reality, something happens that sets us off course.  It’s almost like God’s the one derailing our efforts. Read the rest…