I received a message from my friend Anita today: “Thanks for God’s guidance! I not only found a job but also understood some of God’s will in such a circumstance!” Reading this message, I think a lot.
After losing her job, Anita had to find another job to support her family. But because she needs to take care of her child and family, her working time would be relatively short. It is really not easy for her to get a suitable job. She anxiously asked me: “Esther, I prayed to God every day, asking God to bless me with a suitable job. But why still can’t I get a job after I tried my best to seek one for so long time?” I replied: “Anita, I know finding a suitable job is your current greatest difficulty and you have made great efforts. In the face of such difficulty, prayer is necessary, but we should also seek God’s will and wait for God’s timing… I read a passage from a website, Let me share it with you.”
“When confronting real-life problems, how should you know and understand God’s authority and His sovereignty? When you do not know how to understand, handle, and experience these problems, what attitude should you adopt to show your intention, your desire, and your reality of submitting to God’s sovereignty and arrangements? First you must learn to wait; then you must learn to seek; then you must learn to submit. ‘Waiting’ means waiting for the time of God, awaiting the people, events, and things that He has arranged for you, waiting for His will to gradually reveal itself to you. ‘Seeking’ means observing and understanding God’s thoughtful intentions for you through the people, events, and things that He has laid out, understanding the truth through them, understanding what humans must accomplish and the ways they must keep, understanding what results God means to achieve in humans and what accomplishments He means to attain in them. ‘Submitting,’ of course, refers to accepting the people, events, and things that God has orchestrated, accepting His sovereignty and, through it, coming to know how the Creator dictates man’s fate, how He supplies man with His life, how He works the truth into man. All things under God’s arrangements and sovereignty obey natural laws, and if you resolve to let God arrange and dictate everything for you, you should learn to wait, you should learn to seek, you should learn to submit. This is the attitude that every person who wants to submit to God’s authority must take, the basic quality that every person who wants to accept God’s sovereignty and arrangements must possess. To hold such an attitude, to possess such a quality, you must work harder; and only thus can you enter into the true reality.”
I went on and said: “From this passage, we can see all things are in God’s hands. When we encounter difficulties, we first should entrust our difficulties completely to God, then we should have an obedient attitude. This is what we Christians should do. Anita, I will also continue helping you look for a suitable job for, but about when you will get one, God has the final say. Let’s commit the result into God’s hands and wait for God’s timing and obey God’s arrangement together!”
Anita said: “Right, I got it now! Thank God!”
God had once said such words:
What God says counts and shall come to pass,
can’t be changed by anyone.
No matter if it’s words said before or words yet to be said,
they all shall be fulfilled,
so that everyone can see.
Everything in the universe is determined by God.
What is not in the hands of God?
Anything that God says will be done.
Who is able to change the will of God?
Nothing can hinder God’s plan from moving ahead.
God is working at all times.
All things are in God’s hand.
God is always working on the planning of His management.
Who is able to interfere?
Doesn’t God still orchestrate everything?
The state things have entered today is still within God’s plan and vision. Everything in the universe is determined by God.
What is not in the hands of God?
Anything that God says will be done.
Who is able to change the will of God?
Nothing can hinder God’s plan from moving ahead.
God is working at all times.All things are in God’s hand.
This is what He has preordained.
God’s people shall listen to His voice.
All those who truly love God will return before the throne He sits!
Everything in the universe is determined by God.
What is not in the hands of God?
Anything that God says will be done.
Who is able to change the will of God?
Nothing can hinder God’s plan from moving ahead.
God is working at all times.
All things are in God’s hand.
All things are in God’s hand.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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