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Sorry it has been a few days since I posted…but as they say…I’ve had things to do!

Today as I traveled to another meeting (?$%#), I began to pray and think about some future thoughts. Naturally, these thoughts war in their process to apply human logic and reasoning–after all we are human. Yet, there is also a spiritual component because I am a believer, a man who fully and completely believes in God’s divine work in my life, the things which touch my life and the steps of my future. As I considered the challenge before me this week, I remembered a wise man once giving me a pointed response to my pondering…”either the God you serve is in charge or He isn’t–you decide!” It was a strange but powerful wake-up call to my soul in the coming days. I began to reflect on how faith works in my heart and how I apply GOD THOUGHT to my life moments. Does that make sense?

I’ll admit it…I believe He’s in charge.

I’ve seen and witnessed too many moments to doubt His sovereign control over the affairs of my life…and yours! In ways that we will never know, the Sovereign and Holy God is at work in my life, setting the stage, enabling my heart to believe and causing me to find success in my heart’s desire to see Isaiah 26:8 be the reality of my whole life. The verse reads…

“Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.”

I’ve been reading feveriously this month the novels by Joel C. Rosenberg Last Jihad, Last Days, Ezekiel Option and finished Cooper Scroll on the plane today. If you like the Left Behind series, you’ll love these as they are written in the context of Israel and the middle east and end-time prophecy. It has got me thinking about the world and the things which seem to exasperate us in the world…sin, lawlessness, indifference to morality, crime, abuse, neglect, etc. and the question…does God care? does He notice?

He does and He is engaged…more than we know.

Men and women are in position to bring about His will upon the earth. The decisions and actions of our evening news are only signs to us that Sovereign God is in control of this world and all that happens. It brings peace to my spirit. I rest in the embrace of my soul to the value that God is in control. Do you?

Lest you think I so Calvinist that I think we are not participants of choice, let me tell you I believe I do choose every day…to believe…to surrender and to know that my life when fully surrendered to His calling, His assignment and plans enables me to be His voice and light in the darkness of this present world. I represent Him with joy like an ambassador in the presence of another land…as I wait for the fulfillment of His plans in my life and this world. I take comfort in the worlds of the Psalmist…

“Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat for he grants sleep to those he loves.” (Psalms 127)

On my shelf in the state office is a book by Ron Mehl and at a very critical point in my life, it brought a powerful word of encouragement. I looked at just a day or so again and recalled the transformational message that came through reading it. The title–God Works the Night Shift. While I’m busy sleeping and going about life in the Isaacs process, God is working, designing words, feeding hungry people, making grass to grow, keeping all things by the power of His might and often I never notice until the heat is on.

Today’s problems are smaller in the view of His surpassing Greatness!

What about you?