DON’T ASSUME THAT YOU KNOW IT ALL…’ PROVERBS 3:7 TM Are you hooked on logic?
One day a scientist asked an old preacher why the Bible version of creation defied logic. Smiling, he replied, ‘The reason God came from nowhere is because there wasn’t anywhere for Him to come from. And coming from nowhere He stood on nothing, for there was nowhere for Him to stand. And standing on nothing He reached out where there was nowhere to reach, and caught something when there was nothing to catch. Then He hung that something on nothing and told it to stay there, and nobody said a word, because there wasn’t anybody around to say anything. Then God said to Himself, “That’s good!” As humans we tend to try and figure things out in advance. But we’re not nearly as smart as we think. Solomon said ‘Don’t assume that you know it all…’ or you’ll find out the hard way that you don’t! One Christian author writes: ‘I…couldn’t feel at peace. Unless I’d everything figured out…I became anxious, restless, nervous, worried and grouchy…similar to…a drug addict who needs a “fix”; the…severity wasn’t the same but the symptoms were. I was a Christian and supposedly walked by faith…I trusted Jesus for salvation, but in other areas I trusted myself.’ Sound familiar? Chronic worry proves you’re trusting in yourself more than God. And worry, like any other sin, needs to be dealt with. Jeremiah said, ‘…mere mortals can’t run their own lives…men and women don’t have what it takes…’ (Jeremiah 10:23 TM). So stop trying to control every possible outcome! Life is much more peaceful when you decide to stand on God’s Word and trust Him, regardless of circumstances!