He said, ‘I am the Lord who made the earth. I gave a shape to it and I put it in its place. The Lord is my name. I say this to you: “Call out to me and I will answer you. I will tell you about great things. They are secret things that you do not yet know.”' (Jeremiah 33:2-3 EASY) Great things - secret things - that you do not know YET. Did you catch that? When we call out to God, he is never too busy to reveal the hidden to those who seek him with all their hearts. Most of the time, the hidden things remain hidden because we don't ask for him to reveal them. We know bits and pieces, things we have ferreted out on our own, but we don't see what he does in order for all those bits and pieces to come together. Those things may take a while for us to understand, but when we call out, he begins to reveal to us what otherwise may have remained hidden. God gives 'shape' to our lives - making a 'place' for everything we experience. The good and the bad can be used ...
But be careful to do what God says in his message. Do not only listen to it. Do not make that mistake! You must obey God's message. Do not be like a man who quickly looks at his face in a mirror. That man looks at himself, but then he goes away. He immediately forgets what he is really like. So do not just listen to God's message and then forget it. It is a completely good message that makes people free. Look at it carefully and keep it in your mind. Do what it tells you to do. God will bless anyone who lives in that way. (James 1:22-25) If you have ever asked, "But why?", at any point in your life, you might have received varying replies. "I said so, that's why!" "Because it is the right thing to do." "Just do it!" The list could go on, but you know as well as I do, if you are questioning the 'but why' of any action, there is something either you don't understand or you don't want to do. If we don't understand fu...