God is SO SMART!!! I've heard myself saying that lately as if it's this new big revelation! I think God really gets a kick out of me sometimes. I KNOW it's not new information. Of course God is smart, HE KNOWS everything. The problem is I have trouble consistently living as if HE knows everything.
So recently when I realized that God is taking everything in my life; every past relationship and friendship(ones I thought were long since over or fairly insignificant); every conflict, emotion, and trial that I'm currently facing and using it all to teach me who HE is while at the same time bringing me to a place of healing and wholeness, I had to stop and say, "God is SO SMART!"
He's so smart that the revelations I've been too angry or scared to grasp have been shown to me through the people HE's put in my life. We SO NEED each other. HE knows this!
HE knows exactly what we need, how much of it, and who needs to be a part of it. As I prepare for my trips this summer, I have to keep at the forefront of my mind that my God is SO SMART. I did not just wake up one day and say, "I think I'll go to Guatemala and Nepal this summer." It was a process of discovering what God was leading me to. I started off with just a knowing that I was going on a trip. Then came the knowing that I was going to Guatemala. It was after I was solid in that belief that the trip to Nepal came up.
I KNOW God is SO SMART because if HE would've told me about both trips at the same time, HE would've met with a lot more resistance than HE already had from me(notice there was still resistance!) HE KNOWS me and HE KNOWS you too.
Because I KNOW that I didn't just wake up and decide about these trips but that God informed me about them, I KNOW that HE will take care of everything concerning them.
He will take care of what concerns you too. God doesn't ask much of us. Love HIM wholeheartedly and believe HIM. If you can get those two things down, I believe everything else will flow from there. He's so much SMARTER than us. So whatever is going on in your life today; whatever the unknowns are; whatever the emotions are; WHATEVER IT IS....ask God to come into it and take it over. Lay it down and let HIS SMARTS take over. I KNOW you will be so glad you did.
Rampage softball
17 years ago
Nicole, you are so right. God is so smart. That is so important to me right now with this new diagnosis of MS. It is hard for me to see what possible good an come out of my having MS. I know that God did not give me MS, but he certainly will use it for hiw glory, and that is what is really important.
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