Seeking God's Wisdom

Jesus is more interested in your holiness than your happiness. Your consecration to Him not your relevance in the world. His desire to reveal His will exceeds your desire to know it. He is not so much concerned with your performance, your bottom line, your grades, your accomplishments, your net worth. He is less concerned than we are about us getting everything done and succeeding. His timetable is not the same as ours. He wants you to thrive and survive in life so that He gets maximum glory. He is most concerned with your heart. He is most concerned with where you are at with your worship of Him. Jesus declared war on sin at the cross, and He doesn't want you to be a casualty of war. The victory is won. No need to cave under the pressure of a godless society or others expectations. Make sure your heart is right with Him.

Jesus cares supremely about His glory. He has a plan and it is in process. He wants you to be like Him. If you are a Jesus-loving, gospel-changed, God's Word-obeying, Spirit-filled person, aka a Christian, He is making you like Him. We are so worried about what is next for us. We are focused on whatever catches our eyes, like a little baby learning to focus and see. Stimulated by anything that moves. Jesus wants your supreme worship. To be the delight of your heart. He wants you to cherish what is true and right and good. He wants you to choose to love Him above all and reject the magnet pull of the world, the flesh and the devil.

He is coming back, in glory. Ask Him for wisdom and knowledge and understanding, but know that it's intent is not to make you more of whatever you want to be, it is for God to receive more glory. Knowing God's will is about being content in Christ. It is about being the person God wants you to be, not doing all the things we want to do. We need some perspective building. There was a massive earthquake in Japan last week. Tsunamis, floods carrying people away to a Christless eternity. Storms threaten our shores. Every minute people are dying and going to hell and we are looking at our belly buttons. We need to get a life. Get some perspective. Eph. 5:17 Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.