Tricked, not by God – My Grace – I’d rather trust in You – Sought the Lord

There is an old song verse “I fought the Law, and the Law won.” My mind pulled it out and turned sought the Lord into “I sought the Lord, and the Lord won.” It seems fitting. That is what God wants us to do, seek Him. It only makes sense that it is a victory when we do. Maybe the thought is that we bring glory to God when we seek Him. Either way, good for us.

I revised “Trusts in You” to “I’d rather trust in You”. No memories remain of that effort, but there it is. One of the worst aspects of having a business with employees is that you have to trust someone else. As a one-man band, I do it all and I do not have to trust in anyone else. A friend had to trust someone with $25,000 of material and the $25,000 of material and the someone promptly disappeared. The flaw is that we cannot really trust in ourselves. We each mess up in countless ways and at the end of the day, only God is trustworthy. I’d rather trust in Him.

Someone recently asked me (not in these words exactly), but how could they be expected to continue waiting on God to deliver. The previous paragraph just talked about trusting God, and now we talk about how long to wait. The variable here is surrender. When we fight against something, someone loses, us or them. When we “tell” God what we want and then wait for His blessing, we end up in a loop waiting for our answer. When we ask God to provide us a path forward, one is given, even if we do not like it. In my mind, there is this concept that we have been tricked by the world or the devil into expecting certain things from God. God says trust me; God says ask me; God says I will provide. But when He does not provide what we ask when we want, then we assume we have been tricked. We have been tricked, but not by God. We have been tricked into believing what we want is good. God brings good from all things in His time.

My Grace. The mental picture I get is God telling me that His grace is sufficient for me. Even if I lose everything and suffer for decades, maybe with sores on a dung heap like Job, even then it will all be worth it once I am united to Him in heaven. It is only when we die to those things on earth, die to ourselves, that we can live in the freedom of salvation and share in the peace that passes understanding.