Just believe that God is good all the time already.
So, God was good again today.
I felt like staying home from work today because I was feeling a little sick and tired. But I dragged myself out of bed and even managed to make myself a sandwich (my wife was proud).
I’m trying to just come back to simple faith and not over-analyze situations and people and how God might do a thing.
I’m thinkin’ just believe God is good all the time (Nahum 1:7), believe that He’s for me and not against me (Rom 8:31), believe that He wants to work and He will work through me (2 Chronicles 16:9a), even if the effect is not how I envision it being (Isaiah 55:9)… He always does something (Matt. 7:9-11). I’ve learned that from experience.
So, obedience is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22b). When I am obedient to God at my workplace He totally blesses it. Today I was talking to my co-worker. He just stopped me in the aisle and asked me about fatherhood. He’s been dealing with the possible decision of having a kid or not. He’s been nervous and scared about what will happen, how his life will change, how will he pay for things, stuff like that. I just told him about my experience with fatherhood, and how I can now relate to God in a different way; how I can see how much he loves me because of how much I love my son.
I told him the peace and provision that Jesus has brought to the life of my wife and I. In the end he thanked me and told in so many words that he appreciated me talking to him about “spiritual” stuff. And that he wasn’t totally “into” all that stuff, but that he appreciated me talking to him about it.
I told him that we are not just physical beings, that we are spiritual, and that we can communicate with God’s Spirit. He also said that he appreciated the other day when I “did that thing over in the front” (I prayed for his shoulder pain to go away and he felt the heat of God on it) He told me that my other co-worker was like, “I can’t believed he just presumed that you were cool with that and just did that to you” But the first co-worker said, “I actually didn’t mind, it was nice that somebody cared enough”…or something to that effect.
It’s just awesome to see that God uses ordinary people like me, people who were messed up just like the rest of the world, but that God is changing into His likeness…people who are just hungry for God to change the current situation, and the world with his love.
Thanks Lord that you use me. I want to keep listening, and obeying.
Love,
-jer
