Psalm 90:2-4

“Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”- Psalm 90:2,4

I always like to think I am like God. I think the basic aspects of humans and God are similar. God uses written and spoken language. We use written and spoken language. God sees, hears, touches and tastes. We see, hear, touch and taste. We read in Genesis that God was walking in the garden. I walked to the gas station last week. God is God and we are not. So I know that God much more that humans are, but much of this is similar.

One of the things I just can’t relate to is the foreverness of God. I know there is a big fancy word for it. It is omni-somethingorother. The fact God looks at time as a single thing just blows my mind. The very second God created the universe he was thinking about me. He knew the day I would be born and the day I will die. He knew my wife would be working this morning.

For me it adds to the wonder of God. If I think too long and hard about it, I start to get a headache.

2 Tim 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.
2 Tim 1:7

Do you ever feel fear? Have you ever been in a situation where all you wanted to do was to get out? Have you ever felt like a coward? My answer would be "which time today did you want to talk about?". I think these are a natural feeling to the situations we deal with in the world today. However, this is never what God intended. God has given us a spirit of power and love.
We have all the necessary tools to meet all the challenges that will come our way.

Can you use a tool you don't know is there? Can you use a tool you know nothing about? We know we have been given tools, but do we take the time to learn about them? I see this verse as a welcome mat. It lets me know there is more to come if I chose to go through the door. I would like to be a person of power, love and wise discretion. I would even take just been semi-wise in discretion. Just think of all the pits you would avoid if you had just a little more discretion.

Every time people encouraged me to study my bible, I would think there just isn't any time in my busy day. If I learned to miss falling to one pit each day, I would have more than enough time to read and study my bible. The more studying I would do the fewer pits I would fall into each day.

There is at least a couple of pits with my name out there today. I am going to read my bible and save the time of falling into one of them. How about you?

What's next?

It has been a very busy couple of months. I lost my job at the Days Inn in Holland Michigan. I am now working as a small business and personal coach. I work with people and businesses to help them achieve their goals. I am also doing a few other things here and there. Right now I am working with the Holland Blast professional basketball team.

This morning I was reading from My Utmost For His Highest. As I was flipping to the beginning of June, I saw a title about what is next to do. I thought this might be interesting. I am leaving one job a starting my next job. The verse for the June 8Th reading is John 13:17.

Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. John 13:17 NIV

The commentary is outstanding. It brings up part of 1 Samuel 15:22, "...Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice...". So often we know what we should do next, but we (I) don't want to. Instead we look for other "good" things we can do. We look for other ways to sacrifice. These other things are not on the path forward. They go to the side. If we don't follow God's plan, we don't grow as He wants us to. We may be in a different place, but it is not the best place for us. It is not the place that will grow us and prepare us best for the future.

I am always fighting where God wants to take me. When I finally arrive I am so happy and just can't understand why I didn't want to come here. Then with my next breath, God says let's go over there. My response is "no way, but how about if I fast for the weekend?" I will go were God wants me to sooner or later. I like to think I am learning and it will be sooner.