The Plumbline

No doubts - wouldn't this be a good way to live our lives?  To be in a place where every decision we make is perfectly certain, not tainted with worries or anxiety.  Is this even possible?  I don't know about you, but the closer I walk to Jesus, the more certain I am of my decisions and the less anxious I am to ask for the things I might need more than a little help with.  In fact, I find the things I desire to do and the things I desire for others in my life are much closer to the way God wants to do things the closer I am walking to him.  The further away I get from him, the more uncertainties enter into the picture.  Therefore, I can assume from this that getting right up close and personal with Jesus is the very best means of avoiding some of the foolish things I may decide on my own! We can come to God with no doubts. This means that when we ask God for things (and those things agree with what God wants for us), God cares about what we say. He li...

Did you ever stop to consider why the God of the Universe, the one who made all things and knows all things, requires us to ask for whatever it is we need or want?  It seems contradictory to who he is, doesn't it?  To have to ask when he knows already seems kind of foolish on the surface, but if you stop to consider what "asking" entails, you may come to a revelation of the true purpose of asking.  You see, asking requires us to humble ourselves, not to mention allow for a clarification of our wants and needs.  Have you ever sought one thing, only to find when you received it the "thing" did not do for you whatever you hoped it would?  I have and it was then that I realized just how much I didn't really need what I asked for - it was just something to "fill space" in my life, but that "space" really should have been occupied by something else (or someone else). This is God’s Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lastin...

If you have ever used the term, "You must have read my mind", then you probably had someone show up with just the right thing you needed at that moment, coming through for you without you even having to ask for their assist, etc.  Truth be told, they didn't read your mind - they anticipated your needs, did the neighborly thing, or just listened to the voice of God!  Man does not read man's thought - God does!  Wouldn't it be great if we could read God's mind?  To truly figure out this whole mess we call life and know the end from the beginning?  Well, according to what he told Jeremiah, we can! For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.   Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you.  Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require...