I think sometimes we think more highly of ourselves than we really should. Is this why in those really difficult circumstances we find it so hard to rely on God for the things we need? I was recently thinking back to a time when I was spending my lunch hour sitting in my car. I was parked on a fast food restaurant parking lot enjoying my lunch. I’d just about had enough of my fries so I started entertaining myself by throwing a fry or two out the window to some birds that were pecking around at practically nothing my eyes could see on the ground. I got a joy at seeing them just eat up those fries. Then my feeling turned from being entertained to feeling maybe I had something those birds needed…. I tossed out some more fries; the birds eagerly pecked away at them. Then the next thing I knew it was as if God’s voice interrupted my little deal I had going with these birds, “Don’t you think I can do the same thing for you?” Instantly these words came to my mind, ‘are you not more than the birds of the air for which God makes provision?’ Here I was looking at those birds through the eyes of someone who felt she was so much more than they were and was at this moment their provision. How could it then be so hard for me to remember during the times when I’m looking for answers to my own needs that there is someone bigger than myself looking at me through the eyes that I was looking at the birds?
God so lovingly and tenderly enjoys us. That’s the feeling I get on a day when I’m feeling I just want to stay in the bed. But He sends me that little “pick me up” by causing the sun to shine for me on that day. He cares about every little detail of our lives but sometimes we lose focus of the big picture. We fail to realize that our lives are not just happening to us. There is someone so far above our universe who has His hands in everything. Yes, we make choices; we make them everyday. But it is God who allows us to make those choices. Sometimes in our seeking Him for direction about those choices we may make a mistake. But in making our mistakes His hope is that we ‘learn’ His voice. We just have to remember that it’s not the end of the world when we’ve “missed it” as we might say. Learn the lesson. Be sure to learn the difference between God’s voice and the voice of reason (what I call ‘logic’). Move on. Move forward.
So what is the thought I want to convey here you might ask? There are times in our lives when God will use us to be a provisionary but we must not forget that God will also make provision for us. When we remember the spot we hold in the big picture we call life, it will be easier to let go of the things we can’t control. And during those times when we think no matter how much we strive to make the right choices we are doomed, if God is in our “big picture” we can not only be free to let go, we can be free to actually enjoy the “big picture”. It actually has some great scenery.
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