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JimfromOhio

I am happlily married with 5 kids. I am an accoutant and worked in an accounting field for over 25 years. I like to make a habit of writing down whenever I have deep thoughts about God (so I won't forget). I really into Reformed Theology that is connected to Presbyterian Church in America.

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I enjoy having deep thoughts about God and put down what I actually think about (so I won't forget).

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Ephesians 1:11

In Ephesians 1:11, "He works all things according to the purpose of His own will." 'Providence" means God’s faithful, moment-by-moment control over everything He has made to ensure that everything He has created are going according to His will. He is active in every detail of it. He’s active at every moment. He doesn’t stand back and let things happen because He decides to intervene if something or someone is not going according to His will. He governs the world moment-by-moment through providence, so that everything that happens, every detail of our life occurs by God's divine providence or by God’s express permission. He is in control of everything. Even the bad things that happen to us are circumscribed by a loving providence and God promises to use them all for our ultimate good. There is a verse in the Bible that God promises that there won’t be anything so bad happen to us that we’re not able to bear it. God does everything--He governs everything.” God doesn’t just sit back and wait until He wants to act and then do it through a miracle.” God constantly intervenes in our lives through providence.

Wisdom

Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is able to work toward God's perspective rather than ours. A determination to know what cannot be known will harm fellow Christians. God has warned that He will take the wise in their own craftiness and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to see the whole picture. Using wisdom, you will see all things fit into shape and form when you look from God's perspective. Our motives in in any subjects including healing should be both right and genuine. We are to love God and serve Him because He is God, not because of the gracious things He does for us or for the rewards He promises us. If we believe God and honor His Word, if we walk by faith in love and obedience, there will be eternal rewards for each of us in that great coming day. Our rewards will differ according to His will because He will make the right judgments for each of us. Under our circumstances, it is not good to attempt to understand but simply trust God regardless what we go through. Some of us do not like to admit that we do not know what is going on, so they torture our minds trying to find ways to obtain what we were promised for. Why did this happen? What does God have in mind? When things happen, some will pressure others who suffer by cruelly trying to manipulate them to comprehend the unfathomable. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the LORD. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.' " Isaiah 55:8-9