
Life Is Not
A Crap Shoot

When
seeking God's will for your life have you ever gotten your Bible down and told
God, now God, I am going to open my Bible to your scripture and the first
scripture I read, I know will be what I am supposed to do. (Now, be honest, I
do not want to have to pray for you. I know I am not the only one who has ever
done that.) But, when I did let my Bible fall open to a page and
started reading, it was not what I wanted to hear, so I tried it again. You
know 2 out of 3 wins.
God has
let me know real fast that He or His Word is not like shooting craps.
Sometimes I want to know
more. I want to be able to make the right decisions for my life. I don’t
want to go outside of the will of God and find myself flailing about in the
midst of consequences I actually bring upon myself. I want more than anything
to stay within the pathway He sets before me. And while I want one thing, I
have to accept the fact that what I want may not be the best choice for me or
for others. Ultimately, I want God’s best. I take seriously the larger
decisions in my life. I think everything I do works together with God’s plan
to build up His kingdom and grow me spiritually. I have various folks in my
life who influence my thinking; sometimes they just add to my confusion.
Do I have an Amen to that last statement.
We
sometimes allow things and people into our lives that God had not planned for
us. When this happens, God does not change the landscape of our lives and put
those things and people in His arrangement. He will try to straighten out the
mess we have made when we let Him. Key, when we let Him.
“For this world’s wisdom is
foolishness with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their own
craftiness. And again, The Lord knows the thoughts and reasonings of the wise
and recognizes how futile they are.” 1 Corinthians 3:19-20.
We try to reason everything
out and the more we reason, the more we seek another’s counsel, the less we
know and the more muddled our thoughts become. That is when I retreat. I
actually stop talking to people about my quandary, my crossroad. I sit
quietly before the Lord and ask Him for His wisdom. I rest until I have a
clear answer. That can be daunting. Sometimes the answer seems totally out
of sync with anything I’ve been advised. I don’t know about you, but most
times God leads me to act, not on logic, but on faith. The leap may be
frightening. I tend to argue with God in these times, just like Moses saying
he couldn’t speak before Pharaoh. So God gives him Aaron to go along and help
him. Sometimes I think all the things God used to make Pharaoh let Israel go,
was to show Moses the power of God’s might. I relate well to old Moses. But
that is because I take my eyes off God and put them on myself. Moses was more
concerned with his inadequacy than God’s adequacy. Logic sees as far as one
can see before the jump; faith sees God at the end of the jump. From that
vantage point, we catapult with courage, knowing He provides a safe landing.
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Pastor Pat is an well known speaker and Ordained Minister, with the
International Pentecostal Holiness Church, and a member of the North Carolina
Conference of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.
She preached
her first sermon at the age of ten and has been working for the Lord sharing
the Gospel to the World ever since that time.
She is also known as the Internet Pastor for the world. Coffee With Pat has
touched thousands of lives since the ministry began back in 1996.
