We have a choice—SEE GOD’S TRUTH—OR NOT!
What challenge are you facing today? Could it be that the challenge you are facing today is the same challenge that you faced yesterday and maybe even one you have faced for the last thirty—yesterdays? People say: “Life is filled with tough days, so we need to be tough-skinned people.” In that statement, there is some truth; however, in that statement, there is also a self-focus, a thought-pattern that “we need to be,” as in “we need to see to it that we prepare our bodies to fight against any enemy that comes our way, and that if we get ourselves ready, then we will be ready to fight. Again, there is some truth in that statement, but still there is a sense of self-focused preparation.
There is distinctly a difference between “some” truth and “ALL TRUTH.”
There is distinctly a difference between seeing with “some clarity” and with “EYES WIDE OPEN.”
There is distinctly a difference between trusting in what we “can see” with our eyes and with trusting and believing what our “eyes cannot see.”
There is a distinct difference between FAITH & “lack” of faith!
The great theologian C. S. Lewis said these words—“I gave in and admitted that God was God.”
Let us consider Lewis’ words for a moment. He first says, “I gave in” indicating that he was in a struggle “against” something, “against” someONE.
Then consider Lewis’ next words. He then says, “and admitted” indicating that he knew the truth but fought against “admitting” he saw the truth of the ONE he was facing.
Finally, consider the ending of Lewis’ statement. He ends with these words—“God was God.” Clearly, Lewis was fighting against the truth, against the admission, and against the submission to what he (Lewis) knew what was true. Clearly—Lewis was struggling, fighting against what he realized was the truth. Clearly—I did too. If you now believe, then clearly—you did too. Until we give in to our self-focus and until we admit, and until we state the obvious—truly, we cannot become God’s child!!!!
We must admit that we see the truth.
We must believe in the truth.
We must confess in the truth that we now see and believe, a truth that we clearly SEE with our soul and not our eyes. That is FAITH. Seeing and believing and trusting in WHO we cannot see with our earthly eyes, yet instead Seeing and Believing and Trusting in WHO we now SEE with our spiritual eyes.
What challenge are you facing today?
Could it be that the challenge you are facing today is the same challenge that you faced yesterday?
Could it be that the challenge you are facing today is the same challenge that you faced for the last thirty—yesterdays?
Could it be that the challenge you are facing today is the same challenge that you faced for even so many—yesterdays—too many to count?
Maybe, yes, quite possibly you should open your spiritual eyes and disclaim as Lewis did—“[I now give in] & [I now admit]—[God IS God.]”
In God’s Holy Word, the prophet Habakkuk was facing the truth of what God was telling him about the moral corruption God saw in the world. God told Habakkuk what He (God) was about to do (because of the moral corruption He saw in the world). The prophet Habakkuk had a decision, a challenge to face—
Admit he understood the truth of what God was telling him—or not.
Believe what he understood that God was revealing to him—or not.
Confess to the people what God was intent on doing to them because of their rebellion—or keep quiet and not warn the people.
God told Habakkuk there was a warring enemy marching toward them, one intent on destroying those who were rebelling against God.
God tells us the same truth today.
God warns us of the devil, of this enemy’s intent to destroy all things, all people, and all joy.
God prepares us and gives us spiritual eyes to SEE the TRUTH.
“Yet I will exult in the LORD,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
The Lord God is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.”
(Habakkuk 3: 18-19)
We have a choice: SEE GOD’S TRUTH—OR NOT!
What challenge are you facing today?
Maybe today, on this new day, we should not react as we did yesterday or even the yesterday before yesterday’s yesterday. Maybe today we should stop in our tracks, look to God, and speak aloud these words: “I give in, God, for I now admit that You God are God.”
The Apostle Paul reminds us so clearly of what Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, did for each one of us. SEE WITH ME.
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth, and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
(Philippians 2: 5-11)