Crisis… what do I need?
A resolution?
A fix?
An Escape?
A resolution?
A fix?
An Escape?
Nah… what I'm realizing what I really need….
…is a little unexpected… I need a King.
It needs someone who will restore order, someone who will tell me how to get back in sync with the Kingdom program, someone who will know what went wrong and how to fix it. Every human life needs His touch.
There are two profound implications when we call God our King:
(1) We acknowledge His ability to reign over our circumstances, making Him the object of our praise and the heart of our worship; and
(2) we acknowledge His right to reign over us, submitting ourselves to His authority and removing ourselves from control of the situation.
Both are necessary responses in crisis; the King will inhabit the ruins of a person who knows both His power and His authority. Whew, this is gripping.
(1) We acknowledge His ability to reign over our circumstances, making Him the object of our praise and the heart of our worship; and
(2) we acknowledge His right to reign over us, submitting ourselves to His authority and removing ourselves from control of the situation.
Both are necessary responses in crisis; the King will inhabit the ruins of a person who knows both His power and His authority. Whew, this is gripping.
An easy trap for us fallen creatures to get caught up in is the tendency to ask God for His control of every aspect of our situation except us. We want Him to control the people who are making us miserable, the circumstances that are causing us stress and the overall threats to our well being and comfort. But we are much more hesitant to offer Him complete authority over our lives. We want Him to fix things. We don’t want Him to fix us.
God will usually not work that way. In fact, He often allows our cries specifically to bring us to a point of willingness, where we cry out to Him and are willing to sacrifice anything-even our own self will-for Him to intervene. He must break our self-direction if He is to direct us. For Him to take control, we must relinquish it. There is no other way. Repeat, repeat, repeat…
God brings salvation to the Earth-on HIS terms, not ours. We want to be saved from our situation, but God is, sometimes it seems unfortunately-more loving than that. He must save us from ourselves-our plans, our false hopes, our determination to be self filled and hang on to our means to accomplish it. We are often not willing until crisis comes; then we will do anything to see God, to hear God, to be close to Him.
It was grace that brought us there…to that point.. Even if it is a low point… it is grace that will now bring HIS salvation into our ruins.
