The Lord of Hosts Has Purposed!

Isaiah 12, 13, 14
Verse:  14:27  "For the Lord of Hosts has purposed, and who can annul it?  And His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

Wow!  For all our striving, planning and scheming - if it is without any consideration of God the Almighty - it is for naught.  I do not believe that our lives are set in stone.  I do believe that life is dynamic.  I make decisions everyday and sometimes I know that I make the wrong decision - not the one the Lord would have had me make.  I will suffer the consequences for that, especially if I did it willfully and rebelliously.  And yet, Lord, I know that you will bring me through if I repent of my willfullness.  I know, too, that if I had made the right decision I would been so much more blessed.  I think of David and all the wrong that he did  and all the terrible consequences he and his family suffered.  Yet, You forgave him and he became a 'man after God's own heart'. 

This is such a huge topic.  I have come a long way here, for there was a time that I fretted often about 'my free will'.  I like how Tozer addresses this concept - that we 'true believers' travel  "an appointed way!"  Colossians 3:3 tells us "your life is hidden with Christ in God!"  Such wonderful assurance.

We cannot see the 'Big Picture'.   Max Lucado illustrates this with a wonderful little story on http://www.crosswalk.com.upwordswithmaxlucado/ called 'The Woodcutter.'   I know I can look forward to the future with a deeper more abiding assurance of what is to come because God loves me.

 Dear Lord, that doesn't mean that I still don't fret, for I do as life here is often scarey, yet I "know that my Redeemer lives . ." (Job 19:25) and that You "will keep my going out and my coming in from this time forth and forevermore"  (Psalm 121:8)

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!