The Inconsiderate God
There is this thing about God. He is very inconsiderate. Now I don’t say He is unfair just that He is inconsiderate. God is right to be inconsiderate because His will and His ways are supreme. We can’t understand it but it is true, nonetheless.
I say that God is inconsiderate because our plans, our hopes and our dreams take second place to His. He will have His way. Sometimes we suffer broken hearts or bruised egos. Our plans are not His plans. Our ways are not His ways. We don’t understand it but we must trust Him. God is good. Broken hearts or bruised egos are small things to suffer. We endure them if we want to be in the center of His will.
Some people ask, “Is it safe to follow God”? And I answer “no”! This very inconsiderate God that I serve has said to His children, “Take up your cross and follow me. The very idea of a cross speaks of danger. So, no, God is not safe, but safety is entirely overrated anyway.
I am glad that God is so inconsiderate. When God looks at me, He does not consider my unworthiness and He does not consider my sins and failures. When He looks at me, He considers only the righteous blood of Jesus. It was shed to buy my salvation. I am glad that God, who does not consider my faults, has looked at me. He has invited me, saying, “Come to me, and I will give you eternal life.” This I know, the eternal life that my inconsiderate God offers is greater than all our hopes and dreams.
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
I John 1:1-7 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/1jn.1.1-7.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement End
Email-douglas@pavementendsministry.com
