If our Abba Father has chosen us to be joint heirs with Jesus Christ, it's just logical that He is actively orchestrating our lives, even now. We can be sure His elaborate advanced planning and detailed execution of every act in this ongoing play, of which we all have our parts, is for His ultimate purpose and glory, not ours.
Our natural tendency is to do everything our way, then we pray and hope for God's validation. As we skew off from God's narrow path, we quickly become blind from our intense subjectivity. As time progresses and our hearts harden, devoid of His sweet presence, we recreate God into our own image - redefining Him in our own terms - God becomes one of our many idols.
God goes to great lengths to keep His side of the covenant we made with Him when we recognized Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Quite shamefully, I admit there were many times I turned my back on God and even tried to run from Him. Other times, like a dumb lost sheep, only following the meal in front of my nose, completely oblivious to where the rest of the flock had been led. And yet, the Lord always came after me, and got me back on the path. He will never let me back out of this relationship of 49 years, as of 2019.
Through a number of situations, God took me to Henan, China, a "nowhere" city in the poorest and most populated place in China. Originally headed for Alaska, He brought me to the Marianas Islands, the poorest of all territories belonging to the USA. It's not "where we are", but, "who we are walking with."
Like a small little boy, who so idolizes his dad's every word, every action, every look, with one small hand held by God's, it's much easier to go or do anything He wants. To walk with God, hand in hand, is the pure grace and mercy of the Lord. Enoch was 65 years old before he started walking with God. At the age of 350, the Bible says, "Enoch was not." Didn't Adam walk with the Lord in the cool of the morning? Can't help but ask the questions - "Was that a daily thing, month after month, or did he just walk with the Lord a few times before falling from grace?"
Point being, God is and continues to orchestrate everything just to get us to gladly and eagerly walk with Him hand in hand.
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