Facing God by Daphne Delay

Author:Daphne Delay
Language: fra
Format: epub
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers
Published: 2017-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Read Job, Chapters 24-27

The Double-Minded Man

When people don’t understand situations and circumstances from a natural point of view, it is not uncommon to hear someone say, “Well, God is sovereign. He can do what He wants.” But let’s clarify sovereignty. It is defined as God’s absolute right to do all things according to His own good pleasure. But this concept has been misunderstood by man from the beginning of time because it doesn’t mean everything that happens is the will of God. God is first and foremost sovereign to His Word, meaning, God’s will is always found in God’s Word. He won’t lie, and He doesn’t contradict Himself (even if people don’t have a full knowledge or understand of His decisions or methods).

The Bible says, “For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts [says the Lord]” (Isaiah 55:9, paraphrase added). God gave us His Word to give us guidelines. And God’s Word is God’s law. Paul said in Romans 4:15, “Where there is no law there is no transgression” (NKJV). In other words, the only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break.

So the law (God’s Word) was, and is, necessary, but it was never intended to be greater than the Lawmaker.

The Humble Will Be Honored

In Luke 18, we find an account that might help us to better understand this principle:

Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else: “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector! I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’ I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

(Luke 18: 9–14)

The Pharisee had made his obedience to follow God’s written law greater than God Himself. But the tax collector did just the opposite. He acknowledged his sin and humbled himself before God. In our own lives, there should always be a balance between following God’s commands (which are intended for our well-being) and recognizing that none of us are without sin, no matter how well we follow what He has told us.

Sin is disobedience to God’s commands, so the Pharisee thought he was without sin because he had obeyed. But remember, deception is reality minus the truth. The reality was that he had followed the logistics of the law.

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