Letting God Out of the Box

There are times when the problems and the troubles that we encounter in life seem so very large and daunting that we are unsure as to what to do or where to turn for help.  Sometimes we try to figure things out on our own to no avail. There are also those times when our focus is on the problem that we are facing and it seems so very big and overwhelming.

It is during those moments as we focus on our troubles that our view of God shrinks.  When we focus on our trouble the problem seems huge and our God seems small.  When our focus is on the Lord our God and Creator our problem seems very small next to who He is.  God is still all powerful and all knowing.

Sometimes we place God in a box to fit our needs.  Isn't time for us to let God out of the box and allow God to be God.  He doesn't need our permission to do such things.  He will do what is right and good.  He will do everything in accordance to His perfect will and purpose.

The Lord wants us to trust Him more and grow closer to Him in an intimate relationship through Jesus Christ.  We need to read the Bible and allow the Holy Spirit of God to reveal what the Word is saying to us today.

We need to learn that all things are still possible with God and He will move heaven and earth to reveal His will to us and He will use us to accomplish His will if we just submit to His authority and His lead.

Times are hard and things will growing tougher as the days go on, but we must remember who our God is.  God hasn't changed.  God hasn't become weak nor has He grown old and tired.  God is the true living God.  He is the Lord, the Creator and Maker of all things including you and I.  He is all powerful and all knowing.  He is the ever present loving God.  There is nothing that is beyond His capability.

Sometimes we forget how Awesome God truly is.  We think we know everything about how God works, but then He surprises us.  He never violates His Word.  He is always true to His Word.  God is love and He is also the just Judge.

The Lord Jesus will return to this earth one day in Judgment when He will judge the living and the dead.  Those who have repented of their sins and received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will enter in Heaven to be with the Lord for all eternity.  Those who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross for their sins will be sent to a literal hell for all eternity outside the presence on Almighty God.

The Lord can't be mocked and He won't be mocked.  God will do as He says He will do in the Bible.  We must come to God on His terms and not ours.  We must submit to His ways and to His perfect will.  God does loves us and He wants to have a personal relationship with each one of us, but we must come to God the Father through Jesus Christ, God the Son to be saved.

God demonstrated His great love for us by sending Jesus Christ to die on a cruel old rugged Cross for our sins and for the sins of the entire world.  In order to get into a right standing with God we need to come to faith in Christ Jesus.  We are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Jesus shed His blood for our sins.  He tool the punishment that you and I deserve.

There is no other way to obtain forgiveness of our sins except through Jesus Christ.  There are no amount of good works or rituals that can perform to earn our way into Heaven.  We must come to God through Jesus Christ and place our faith in Him.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes the Father except through Him and Him alone.

God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day and He is now at the right hand of the Father in Heaven interceding in prayer for us.  One day the Lord Jesus will return when He brings the Kingdom of God to the earth in full completion and He will Judge the living and the dead.

The Lord Jesus didn't leave us to fend for ourselves while we await His return.  He gives the Holy Spirit to indwell everyone that has placed their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  We must receive the gift of salvation by faith.  No one can believe for you.  We need to confess that we are sinners to the Lord and receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.  I would encourage you, if you have never done so, go to the Lord right now and confess to the Lord that you are a sinner and can't save your self and ask Jesus Christ into your life to be your Lord and Savior.

It doesn't have to be a fancy prayer, but it needs to be sincere and done with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  God is who He says He is and we can trust Him.  May open the box in our minds that we have placed God in and let Him be God.

Lord,
You are God and there is no other God besides You.
You are God and we are Your creation.
May Your will be done on the earth as it is in Heaven.
Let Your Kingdom come soon O' Lord.
Lord, pull away the veil from the eyes and hearts of those who don't know You.
Open my eyes and my heart to see Your work in my life.
I praise Your Holy Name.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen.