We design our automobiles to operate on gasoline and as passenger cars. If we’re abusive, and try using diesel fuel instead of gas, or haul loads that exceed the car’s design, we’re taking risks that will lead to catastrophe.
We design our houses to be homes, not meth-labs. We design our landscaping for beauty and for proper drainage. We are designers of our own lives––for better or for worse. We are designed after the image of God.
We pro-create because He so designed us. When we have children, those of us who care, do so hoping for the best: so it is with the LORD. There are no guarantees that our children will behave, even with the best training.
Israel, the nation, misbehaved. The nation has a history of not prevailing: they are called in their own scripture, “A stiff-necked people.” (Exodus 33:5)
“Israel” is a title used in the Bible for those who have prevailed with God. (Genesis 32:28)
We are to prevail through God by reliance, trust, and faith in His faithfulness – actually by faith in Him through knowing Him in a personal relationship.
We cannot fully trust His word unless we fully trust Him. This is “Leaning not on our own understanding;” this is the meaning of “Trust in the LORD with all your heart. (Proverbs 3:5).
We don’t need to know all the details; in fact, we will never know all the details of anything. That is far beyond our mental design. Trusting Him is possible. We need not and cannot know all the details. To have blessed assurance is an experience of His presence; not a collection of ideas.
The devil has also a design. He must keep us busy trying to appease a false god. The LORD does not request that we appease Him, but that we allow Him to do His finishing touches on us: to take away our sin for us and give us joy that remains. He is the Potter. We are invited to be the clay in His hands. He will remake us into likeness of His Son. This is His plan. His design for us.
The word, scripture, reminds us to return to Him who is the Comforter. He is comforts even in the midst of confusion and dismay; feelings that come at us.
We are everlasting. His design for us is that we would invite Him who has already invited us, who has already come seeking the lost. He has already fulfilled righteousness, and is known as the Holy–Spirit, the only Holy Spirit.
The Savior is waiting. Return, or turn for the first time in your life. The door is left open. He is the door to this relationship of comfort, and the only door.
He has designed mankind with a hole in the conscious heart which can only be at peace and full of joy by being filled with the Holy Spirit.
That Love became my ransom fits the mindset of any of the ages of mankind. This is not fair play, it is mercy. Man did not think this up. It was revealed to us: it happened in history. Jesus gave his life so that we can have life.
Mercy is the kindest behavior we can imagine. God’s mercy endures forever. His goodness leads us to repentance. Repentance is a turning away and happens within our being because we’ve begun to experience a love that nothing on earth can duplicate.
Oh, reader, He has created our lives because of the hope that is set before us. We can soon see Him face-to-face; who will wipe forever from us the tears we’ve known so well here. This is His design.
“It is His will that none should perish,” (2 Peter 3:9). That no one will forever miss this opportunity. There are no second chances.
Buddy
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