The Path You Are On is Not Going to End Well
The Outcome is Up to God Part II
Seek God
Look to His Word, and look for His direction
Through the things He is doing around you
It may not be by chance you are in the circumstance you are in
It may be your opportunity to serve
Or, for Him to serve you, but in every moment remember this
DO GOOD!!!
What good can you do in this moment and let God do the rest
Even if doing good cost you, your Father knows how to meet your need
There are many paths, choices in life that will not end well
But for those who seek God to “Do Good” life will end well
OOPS!!!
Eternity with our Father in heaven never ends
That is better than ending well
The Outcome is Up
to God Part II
With all the factors in life it is amazing
anything turns out the way we choose…
Health, actions of others, weather, accidents,
pandemics, earthquakes, life and death, etc.
We are a speck on the earth
and less than that in the universe.
God created us with the ability
to make choices, to think, and plan.
I find my life to be full of blessings
and disappointments.
The results of my casting lots
and voting leave me at times depressed.
Life does not always go the way we want
and as much as money can make life better…
There are some things money can’t buy or can’t do.
Friends and family are great until they are not.
Having a healthy body
is at the top of the list of great things…
But a small unseen virus can take your life
or leave you with permit health issues.
So is life left up to chance?
Is the tree in the woods destined to fall
in one direction at a particular time?
Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where it falls, there will it lie.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
You and I cannot understand the direction of life…
Yet, we are to plan and work for the future.
Who can understand the wind
that refreshes on a hot day
and destroys when it is angry.
The biggest factor to our plans is God.
Whoever watches the wind will not plant;
whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed in a mother's womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5
James 4:13-17 tells us of
all the things we may not know
or have control over…
There is one thing
we should always choose….
It is to Do Good.
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
Proverbs 16:33 says in the Message Bible…
Make your motions and cast your votes,
but God has the final say.
God has the final say.
But let me add God’s knowledge
is from beginning to end.
He sees and knows you in the midst of it all
because you are valuable to Him.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?
Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Luke 12:6-7
His Spirit is like the wind.
The wind blows wherever it pleases.
You hear its sound,
but you cannot tell where it comes from
or where it is going.
So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
John 3:8
You and I are invited to be God’s children…
Born again.
So we can pray “OUR FATHER in Heaven…
God cares for you.
"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.
For I tell you that their angels in heaven
always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 18:10
The Amplified Bible says it this way…
The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly of the Lord
[even the events that seem accidental are really ordered by Him].
Proverbs 16:33
So, we are not as powerful to control our lives
as we might think or like.
Those who are born again are God’s children
and watched over by His angels.
You are very important to your Father in Heaven.
You are born and empowered by the Spirit…
Like a wind, one cannot fully understand.
Every day you will have opportunities.
Make the most of them by…
Being filled with the Spirit.
Grow in your understanding of God’s will
Worship in song.
Give thanks to God.
Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:15-20
and casting lots or dice
to find direction…
Seek God.
Look to His Word…
And look for His direction through
the things He is doing around you.
It may not be by chance you are in
the circumstance you are in.
It may be your opportunity to serve…
Or, for Him to serve you…
But in every moment remember this.
DO GOOD!!!
What good can you do in this moment
and let God do the rest.
Even if doing good cost you
your Father knows how to meet your need.
There are many paths…
Choices in life that will not end well
But for those who seek God
to “Do Good” life will end well.
OOPS!!!
Eternity with our Father in heaven never ends.
That is better than ending well.
Proverbs 16:33 NIV
33 The lot is cast into the lap,
but its every decision is from the Lord.
33 Make your motions and cast your votes,
but God has the final say.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
Proverbs 16:33 AMP
33 The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly of the Lord [even the events that seem accidental are really ordered by Him].
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