Knowing God, Our Part

At one time or another, we all likely fall into the trap of trying to take responsibility for our relationship with God. But it is all His idea, and He already has planned out every circumstance, challenge and encouragement necessary to bring us into the full realization of experiencing His eternal life in our whole being. Realizing this, we may fall the other way, into the deception that since God is in complete control, and has every circumstance planned, we can just lean back and let Him do His thing. We need to come to a basic understanding that knowing God is not an either/or proposition. We are in cooperation with God in this endeavor; He is not raising up slaves, but sons, to rule, reign and fellowship with Him. So part of our training as joint-heirs will be to learn by experience how to cooperate with our Older Brother in every endeavor.

God is a jealous God, and does not delegate His sovereignty, His authority to anyone else. So if you want to get along with God, don’t sit in His chair—AND DON’T LET ANYONE ELSE SIT IN IT EITHER!

As we learn to depend on Him we begin to enjoy letting Him live through us, even in unpleasant situations. Since one of the goals of the flesh is to maintain control, as the Lord begins to exert His absolute control over our life, there will be conflict with the flesh, both our own and the flesh of those who, for whatever reason, believe they have a right to exert spiritual, or in some cases soulical or natural rights over us that they do not have. Don’t tell Him what to do, or how to do it; He is under no obligation to tell us when or how or what.

The Act of Waiting

The fastest and most effective habit we can learn is the Act of Waiting on the Lord. For our purposes, waiting on the Lord is the process by which our soul and body are presented before the Lord in stillness by faith to provide Him the opportunity to do His work without our conscious interference.