Tag: God’s Will

Have you ever wondered how politicians make promises yet fail to deliver?

How about those who cheat others to become rich?

How about Influencers? They have many followers, yet, they may have fewer degrees (academic experience) than you. 

Have you ever wondered why your opinion does not matter even though you are knowledgeable?

People would listen to an Influencer with no idea than listen to you because you are not an influencer. 

An armed robber or a burglar would likely get more wealthy than you would though the source of their wealth might be unpopular or illegal. 

Generally, those who are influencers are often acceptable in society. 

If you are poor, you are likely despised and rejected even if you have ideas.

Job 21:7-9 NET 7 “Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power? 8 Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe and without fear, and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

The wicked prosper even though it uses illegal means.

Kidnappers and drug traffickers make more money through devious methods than the educated genius who went to Harvard. 

All these make no sense!

Even Jesus chose Peter, an uneducated fisherman, Matthew, a fraudulent tax collector, and Paul, who killed many people, to do His work. 

So, to gain knowledge and power, follow the One who has it all.

Job 19:25-26 EasyEnglish 25 I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that, in the end, he will stand upon the earth. 26 One day I will die and people will bury me in the ground. But in this, my body, I will see God.

Paul said that hope that is seen is not hope. If we hope for what we do not have at the moment, then we wait for it patiently. 

It takes a lot of endurance and patience to stand temptations, peer pressure, and intimidation.

If you do not have it today, tomorrow is possible. Not everyone is willing to wait for tomorrow though.

All your desires may not come to reality. 

For all these reasons, you need the same confidence as Job.

I may not see all the promises of God, but I have God who has all the promises in His custody. 

My hope is that God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly beyond my imagination and my thoughts. 

Even if I fail, He won’t fail me.

Here lies the lasting hope in an unfailing God.

Your wits’ end is God’s starting point.

I believe there is life after we die or after this world. 

I have confidence that man dies a physical death but would live either in heaven or in hell.

Even the sentence “go to hell” (although this word is considered vulgar by some people) is commonly used. That suggests that this is a subconscious belief that some people end up in hell.

Job 14:14-15 NET 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes. 15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.

Job, however, was saying that he hoped he would live again even if his present condition did not improve. 

He was optimistic that death or sickness was not the end of him. Death or sickness does not get the final say.

The world is a temporary place. Live your life like you are on a journey. 

Remember, all possessions are temporary, and they won’t follow you to the grave.

Ecc 5:15 NET Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.

1Ti 6:7 NET For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.

Everyone will die!

The concern is the type of death or the cause.

We do not need to fear death at all. I know how hard this is.

I do not suggest acceptability either. 

I am saying everyone born of a woman or otherwise has an expiry date.

No one lives forever on planet earth.

We should be more concerned about events after death. 

Heb 9:27 EasyEnglish God has chosen that every person must die once. After death, God will decide what is fair for that person.

Please, read the following:

Job 14:1-12 NET 1 “Man, born of woman, lives but a few days and they are full of trouble. 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain. 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment? 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one! 5 Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it. 6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man. 7 “But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 8 Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil, 9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant. 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires – and where is he? 11 As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.