Me:  Wait Prodigal!

 

Prodigal:  I need to leave quickly, I was just about to be gone in one more minute!

 

Me:  I know I wanted to talk to you before you left.

 

Prodigal:  Let me guess another story?

 

Me:  Yes , but I think you need to hear it.

 

Chuck Swindoll explores our decisions in his book Active Spirituality

 

Every waking moment of our lives we operate from one of two viewpoints: human or divine.  I sometimes refer to these as horizontal perspective and vertical perspective.  The more popular of the two is human; the more fruitful of the two is divine.  We much prefer to think, maintain our attitudes, and conduct our lives independently.  Human opinions influence us more than God’s commands and principles.  Horizontal solutions seem to give us greater security and pleasure, unfortunately, than vertical ones.  For example, when under the gun of some deadline, we much prefer a tangible way out than God’s telling us to trust Him to see us through.  Rather than waiting on our Lord to solve our dilemma in His own time, we would normally choose the option of stepping in and manipulating a fast, painless escape.  But by doing so, the divine process is reversed.

 

Yep, God has just told you to TRUST HIM again for the thousandth time.  But you just don’t understand the heaviness of all this.  But you don’t understand all that may be affected by all this.  But you don’t understand I need to have answers for others.  But you just don’t understand.  God got the message.

TRUST HIM

Galatians 3:6

Consider Abraham:  “He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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