The God Who Knows Both Sides
Wednesday August 26, 2020
Jesus came to earth to die in our place. Jesus knows the way to please our Heavenly Father and He knows the way humans displease Him. What a great privilege to have someone in Heaven who is praying for us who knows both sides of the life God called us to. Jesus tells us to live to please our Heavenly Father and then He will take care of meeting all our needs.
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. (Matthew 6:33 NLT)
God’s ways are different from our ways. When Jesus was walking with His disciples on a Sabbath day, they saw a man who was blind from birth. They thought the man was blind because His parents had sinned but Jesus explained that the reason for this blindness was so the works of God might be displayed. Jesus spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes and told him to wash it off in a nearby pool. When the man washed it off, he could see. This caused a commotion with the religious leaders. They didn’t care about this miracle of God. They were just upset that the man was healed on the Sabbath day.
If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him — and have seen him! Then Jesus told him, I have come into the world to give sight to those who are spiritually blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind. (John 14:7; 9:39 TLB)
So many things in the above story reflect the way humans who do not know God think. That is why it is so important to get acquainted with what Jesus says. We may think we would change certain things in our lives if we could, but who knows maybe those very things are meant to be used by God to display His amazing power. Others get to see that power when we share our experience, strength, and hope of how God healed and changed us.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Help me through prayer and meditation on Your Word to know Jesus more, and thereby know You more. Help me look at life with the view that You have good plans for me and for each person I meet along the way. Amen
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