An old motto of the Air Force was "Aim High." This is very good and practical advice because you can't achieve higher than your goals. God has a plan for us but we are also to make plans and allow God to fulfill them. To be specific, if you want to be the president, don't aim to be a state senator--you're aiming too low to ever get there--aim for what you want and if you fall short (for instance, only become governor), you will not be considered a failure even in your own eyes, but if you aim for nothing, that's what you will get--we don't accidentally become someone, as if it was our fate (destiny is different and requires our input and faithfulness as well as God's providence--if it's your destiny to be a piano virtuoso, you must practice!
There are those who don't want much from God: achieving the American dream, for instance, or getting the mate of their dreams and don't realize that God has opened the door to limitless opportunities. "Now to Him, who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think..." (Eph. 3:20). "Rom. 8:32 says likewise: "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Indeed, there is no limit (the sky's the limit!) to what God will give us if we have the faith: "Be it done unto you according to your faith."(Cf. Matt. 9:29) How big can you think? How big is your God? Don't you realize that we will be of a higher rank than angels in the kingdom of God and be part of the family of God and not just creatures like the angels who will be our servants and we will judge them? God never gave such promises to angels!
Abraham was rich in this life and will be greatly rewarded in the next because God gave him a special promise that also applies to us! "I am thy shield, and exceeding great reward" (Gen. 15:1). Jesus is ours and there can be no greater reward but to share in His reign, as we rule over the kingdom of God with Him. God rewards some people in all ways and all people in some ways, but God is good to all according to Ps. 145:9: ("The LORD is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.") No one will ever testify that God is not good! Soli Deo Gloria!
There are those who don't want much from God: achieving the American dream, for instance, or getting the mate of their dreams and don't realize that God has opened the door to limitless opportunities. "Now to Him, who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think..." (Eph. 3:20). "Rom. 8:32 says likewise: "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Indeed, there is no limit (the sky's the limit!) to what God will give us if we have the faith: "Be it done unto you according to your faith."(Cf. Matt. 9:29) How big can you think? How big is your God? Don't you realize that we will be of a higher rank than angels in the kingdom of God and be part of the family of God and not just creatures like the angels who will be our servants and we will judge them? God never gave such promises to angels!
Abraham was rich in this life and will be greatly rewarded in the next because God gave him a special promise that also applies to us! "I am thy shield, and exceeding great reward" (Gen. 15:1). Jesus is ours and there can be no greater reward but to share in His reign, as we rule over the kingdom of God with Him. God rewards some people in all ways and all people in some ways, but God is good to all according to Ps. 145:9: ("The LORD is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.") No one will ever testify that God is not good! Soli Deo Gloria!
Some people back up or end up into the lap of success unplanned, as if by fate, and some people know the rules of engagement, as it were, and play by the rules and are street smart; God rewards them to reap what they sow, but in general there is no law of karma that we always get what we deserve in life; for God does not treat us as we deserve, but in grace.
ReplyDelete"For the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift" (says Eccl. 9:11)... "But time and chance happen to them all."
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