There are two eternal factual truths Christians live by: 2 Corinthians 4:17, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,” and 2 Corinthians 5:6-7, “So we are always confident, knowing while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
We often ask our Father, Master, and Owner, where He wants us to go, what He wants us to do, and how He wants it done, but if He told us all life’s details, trust would become sight and not faith. We live by faith as long as we are earthly sojourners, and not physically with our Lord, but everything we encounter earthly prepares us for eternity with our Lord, Master, and Owner.
Father God controls and uses everything in this life for His glory, honor, and our good (2 Corinthians 5:14; Romans 8:18, 28)), and since He is our Knowledge and Wisdom (Proverbs 2:6; Colossians 2:1-3), we can trust Him and thoroughly enjoy every detail of life, for He is always with us, lovingly guiding us, even though we may not physically see Him, yet feel Him.
The more we know the Scriptures, the more we know God, and the more we know God, the more we understand the Scriptures, for every Scripture in some way points us to Christ (John 5:36-40; Galatians 3:19-25; Revelation 1:1-3).
We may not fully know God’s perfect will in every situation, but we do know the God controlling every situation; therefore, we know God’s Holy Spirit reveals each step as He moves us safely through every situation in this life (Psalm 23; 90; 119:65-67). So trust Him!
But some still believe God does not control every situation in life; yet things happen exactly as recorded in God’s word, the Bible, the Scriptures? Yes, God already knew every detail of our earthly life He allows us to steward for Him, and He wrote in the book of each of our lives, every detail, and when all our individual books are opened along with the Book of Life; then we will be judged by what was prewritten in our personal book (Psalm 139:13-16; Revelation 20:11-15).
And only those who believed, obeyed, and trusted everything to God, will have their names written in the Book of Life, so know God’s word, believe it, obey it, and trust everything to God’s care, for He truly does care more about us than we or anyone else does.
We already know, up to this point, what God has written in our individual book, and we already know the depth of our close, intimate, relationship with Him, reveals what is to come.
Our close, intimate, .loving, relationship with God, through Christ Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, is not only our greatest earthly blessing, but also our greatest eternal blessing.
Our close, intimate, personal relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit, is what will get us through whatever we are destined to face from here on, for our life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1-3), but we know in Him life is wonderfully amazing, even though our personal book may be filled with foolish choices until we gave our all to Christ.
(Please give me time to daily process the friend request, for there are so many.)
Jim Nabors
