Dave’s Monday Blast – August 3, 2015

I really enjoy the music produced by the singer song writer Lauren Daigle. She sings a particular song that I find most compelling concerning the mysterious ways of God. The song is entitled “Trust in You” (youtube this). One line from the song says this, “When you don’t move the mountain, I’m needing you to move, when you don’t part the waters I wish I could walk through, when you don’t give the answers as I cry out to you…I will trust, I will trust in you.” Do you ever have a trust issue with our God?

We are surrounded by wickedness. The latest “scandal” specific to Planned Parenthood is enough to make our hair curl. When we don’t understand what God is doing or why…it can provide a real challenge to our faith. His ways can seem perplexing. The times when ungodly people seem to triumph over the righteous make us scratch our heads and wonder why the Lord does not intervene. But the truth is, He often uses the wicked to accomplish His purposes. We must never forget this truth!

In Genesis 37 we read the story of Joseph who faced one hardhearted individual after another during his years in exile. His brothers shipped him off to Egypt. His boss’s wife accused him of an unspeakable crime. And even those he helped like Pharaoh’s cupbearer, forgot about Him (Genesis 40:23). The actions, or seeming in-actions of God make little sense at this point.

But once the story of Joseph’s life was fully written, it was clear that everyone who harmed or neglected the young man contributed to God’s plan. The Lord used numerous people across several years to bring a humbled young Hebrew unexpectedly to power at the right moment to spare his family…who were Messiah’s ancestors, from the effects of famine.

Charles Stanley reminds us, “In our circumstances, we can see God’s actions from only the limited vantage point of our humanness. We experience the events He has allowed or caused but can’t discern what He is thinking. Often the Lord’s goals and purposes are hidden from us until His plans come to fruition.” From my experience, they are oftentimes permanently hidden. But still Lauren Daigle reminds me that I must trust in Him.

I want to admonish you my friends to never forget that our God is sovereign over all the earth. We may wonder at the strange or even terrifying turns our lives take, but we can be certain that HE IS IN CONTROL AND AT WORK. The wicked may triumph for a season, but the final, eternal victory belongs to Christ and His righteous followers. Men of INTENTION understand these truths.