Many people in the modern western Church claim to believe in God's Sovereignty. However, actually believing in God's Sovereignty in one's heart, and not one's intellect is a different matter.
How many people in the modern Church today wait on the Lord in finding a job, finding a church, finding a wife, or finding anything? Hardly any. Instead, they profess to believe in God's Sovereignty, but do not wait on the Lord. Instead of waiting patiently, they let their passions flow, and drive them to get what they want. Many of such people earnestly claim to ask God to lead them to do His Will. However, most people in saying that have already made up their mind as they want they want to do to satisfy their own desires, rather than simply follow the will of God.
When disappointed, they seek to manipulate God into asking Him to giving them what they want, as if God could even be manipulated by a mere puny pathetic little human being who is like grass (Psalm 103:15; 1 Peter 1:24).
God not only has a Will for each person who truly obeys Him. He has a timing. His timing is far wiser than our own. Thus, the wise person would totally and absolutely submit to His timing, and not strive to get anything in accordance to his own timing.
There is a season for everything, not most things or some things, but everything as Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 tells us:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us that there is a time for every single purpose under heaven. That is, there is a purpose for every timing as ordained by God. Ecclesiastes 3:11 testifies of God's Sovereign wisdom: He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
No person can even fathom the work of God from the beginning to the end, because of His Sovereignty. Every thing in its timing is for His purpose and His glory. Who does man think he is to change it?
Who do you think you are to think your timing is better than God's? Who do you think you are to think you can manipulative God into changing His timing which He has determined in His infinite wisdom?
The wise person waits on the Lord, knowing that His Will is the best for him. He is not being selfish in doing so, but rather, is trusting in the Lord. Rather, it is the fool who is proud, and ignores and despises the wisdom of God's timing, seeking his own best in according to his wisdom. To those of you who think the wise are selfish in seeking their best, does the fool not also seek his best?
As Proverbs 3:5-6 exhorts:
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
It is an instruction about how to do the will of God. Doing the will of God does not mean seeking or striving to get into ministry, preacher, or pastor, or prophet, to find a job, find a house, or to find a spouse. Trusting in the Lord with all of one's heart, refusing to trust in one's own understanding, and acknowledging Him in all of one's way is to do the will of God.
For example, Apostle Paul did not strive to become an Apostle. He was an Apostle "by the will of God" (Ephesians 1:1). He was made an Apostle of Jesus Christ by God who directed his paths to become an Apostle.
In the same way, neither can one strive to become a pastor, or preacher. One must trust in the Lord, refuse to trust in your own understanding and acknowledge that all of one' circumstances are engineered by God to direct you to the path He wants you to follow.
What hinders people from fully and properly obeying Proverbs 3:5-6 is their lack of humility in fully submitting oneself before God, fearing Him in all of one's ways. Indeed, "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding" (Proverbs 9:10).
The wise person has genuine faith in the wisdom of God's Sovereign timing. The foolish person seeks his own timing, and strives to make things go according to his timing, rejecting the wisdom of God's timing.
How many people in the modern Church today wait on the Lord in finding a job, finding a church, finding a wife, or finding anything? Hardly any. Instead, they profess to believe in God's Sovereignty, but do not wait on the Lord. Instead of waiting patiently, they let their passions flow, and drive them to get what they want. Many of such people earnestly claim to ask God to lead them to do His Will. However, most people in saying that have already made up their mind as they want they want to do to satisfy their own desires, rather than simply follow the will of God.
When disappointed, they seek to manipulate God into asking Him to giving them what they want, as if God could even be manipulated by a mere puny pathetic little human being who is like grass (Psalm 103:15; 1 Peter 1:24).
God not only has a Will for each person who truly obeys Him. He has a timing. His timing is far wiser than our own. Thus, the wise person would totally and absolutely submit to His timing, and not strive to get anything in accordance to his own timing.
There is a season for everything, not most things or some things, but everything as Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 tells us:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us that there is a time for every single purpose under heaven. That is, there is a purpose for every timing as ordained by God. Ecclesiastes 3:11 testifies of God's Sovereign wisdom: He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
No person can even fathom the work of God from the beginning to the end, because of His Sovereignty. Every thing in its timing is for His purpose and His glory. Who does man think he is to change it?
Who do you think you are to think your timing is better than God's? Who do you think you are to think you can manipulative God into changing His timing which He has determined in His infinite wisdom?
The wise person waits on the Lord, knowing that His Will is the best for him. He is not being selfish in doing so, but rather, is trusting in the Lord. Rather, it is the fool who is proud, and ignores and despises the wisdom of God's timing, seeking his own best in according to his wisdom. To those of you who think the wise are selfish in seeking their best, does the fool not also seek his best?
As Proverbs 3:5-6 exhorts:
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
It is an instruction about how to do the will of God. Doing the will of God does not mean seeking or striving to get into ministry, preacher, or pastor, or prophet, to find a job, find a house, or to find a spouse. Trusting in the Lord with all of one's heart, refusing to trust in one's own understanding, and acknowledging Him in all of one's way is to do the will of God.
For example, Apostle Paul did not strive to become an Apostle. He was an Apostle "by the will of God" (Ephesians 1:1). He was made an Apostle of Jesus Christ by God who directed his paths to become an Apostle.
In the same way, neither can one strive to become a pastor, or preacher. One must trust in the Lord, refuse to trust in your own understanding and acknowledge that all of one' circumstances are engineered by God to direct you to the path He wants you to follow.
What hinders people from fully and properly obeying Proverbs 3:5-6 is their lack of humility in fully submitting oneself before God, fearing Him in all of one's ways. Indeed, "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding" (Proverbs 9:10).
The wise person has genuine faith in the wisdom of God's Sovereign timing. The foolish person seeks his own timing, and strives to make things go according to his timing, rejecting the wisdom of God's timing.
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