Presumption

What on Earth is God Doing?

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

 

Are you presuming?

Or

Do you know from God’s Word

What on earth is God Doing?

 

Presumption

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

We can see what He created every day.

In Genesis, we see after the sixth day, God rested.

So now what is He doing?

Jesus said… "My Father is always at His work

to this very day, and I, too, am working."  John 5:17

So what on earth is God doing?

There are many predictors of what God is doing.

It could be very presumptuous for

anyone to declare what God is doing.

Paul, declaring the greatness and

majesty of God, asked a question…

"Who has known the mind of the Lord?" Romans 11:34

Throughout the Scriptures, the creative mind

of God has resolved problems and done

things in ways no one would have expected.

Only history and what God tells us helps us

to understand what He has done on earth.

Presuming we know what God is

doing can hinder us from knowing.

John says… The Spirit of the Lord is like

a wind blowing where ever it wills.

We can see like never before.

At any moment, the internet can

show us events around the world.

Yet, it can be hard for us to see the hand of God.

It can also be discouraging as we open the mail

and wonder how we will pay the bills.

Then see on the news the great

debt of the earth’s nations.

We cannot be God’s counselors.

We may not be able to see clearly what God is doing.

The earth still is the Lord’s and the fullness of it.

He is in control and He wants us to find

 out what He is doing and join Him.

We can be grateful… We don’t have to presume.

God tells us in His Word what He

is doing and His Spirit reveals to us.

What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and

the things He has prepared for those who love Him.

Don’t be presumptuous… Know your limits in God.

Scripture Reading

Romans 11:33-34 NIV

33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the

 wisdom and knowledge of God!

How unsearchable his judgments,

and his paths beyond tracing out!

34 "Who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has been his counselor?" 

Psalm 19:12-13 ESV

2  Who can discern his errors?

 Declare me innocent from hidden faults.

13  Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;

let them not have dominion over me!

Then I shall be blameless,

and innocent of great transgression.