Just Because He lives

The other morning I was eating breakfast and a hymn came to me.  I love the old hymns, wish we sang them more in church. But this one really spoke to me and I had not heard it in so long.

It's called "Because He Lives." It goes like this..... "Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, because He lives, all fear is gone, because I know,  he holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives."

I was stunned. I know that hymn and yet it blew me away. I felt the Lord's urging. Shouldn't it be that simple. Shouldn't it be just like that. Just because He lives.

I know it's not like that for me. I stress, I over think, I worry, I lose sleep.

I know, He holds the future. Why am I worried?. Why am I over thinking everything He tells me to do?  Especially the things He tells me to do. It usually goes like this.  Really Lord, couldn't someone else do this?, why would anyone listen to me, who am I?  Didn't I just blow it a minute ago, I mean, is that really who You want doing your business?.

Ever been there?

Funny, in the prior post, I said, God knows what he is doing. That is so true. But I don't always get it. I don't always walk with that truth shinning bright in my mind. But I always end up with that truth being revealed. It is the truth I can't run from, know matter how hard I try.

He knows best. He knows the future. He knows the outcome. He is perfect.

Yet in my flawed thinking, I try and do things my way. When I think about that, meditate on it, it makes me laugh. I am trying to make the decision based on my own thinking. I have been down this road before. When I do my own thing...... DISASTER!

It never fails. I do my best, I do what makes sense to me. Here it comes, crumbling down and down and down. Hmm, maybe I should have heeded that stop sign, must have been a million of them on the way. But no, I just go plowing through, and surprise, surprise, there's a brick wall!

That is always going to be the result of me, doing my own thing, listening to my own wisdom, reasoning it out.

YES! We should know that which the Holy Spirit reveals to us. Yes, we do have the ability to discern things of the Spirit, because He lives in us. But sometimes I hear the spirit and think, "No, that can't be right?"  I can just hear the Lord, "REALLY! OK, then this ones on you".

Why oh why would I do that!

Fear, the flesh, my pride, my stomach, the guy in the book I read. So many things distracting me from God.  But shouldn't it be, maybe not simple, but normal to us, who call ourselves Christian.

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone.  I know He holds the future, and life is worth the living, just because He lives. . . .

Because He lives within my heart.

Isaiah 55:8 & 9  Says "“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." "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.“ (NLT)

Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189, United States of America. All right reserved.