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02.28.13

A God Thing

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of
God is stronger than men. - 1 Corinthians 1:25 NKJV.

You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our
Savior,the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
- Psalm 65:5 NKJV.

It was 40 years ago today, when our oldest son was born. At the time,
we were living in a 12’ by 50’ mobile home at the Gaslight Village
mobile home park lot #125 in Yukon, Oklahoma. My wife was a secretary
in the land department for Union Oil Company. I had just completed my
undergraduate degree and was working as an accounting clerk for
Robberson Steel Company in Oklahoma City. We were not attending church
and had not been for some time. A couple of the ministers from the
First Baptist Church in Yukon had visited us, and we talked about
attending there, but never did. If someone had told us back then that
some day our son would be the pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Yukon, Oklahoma, we would have thought it was the craziest thing we
had ever heard. Soon after our son was born we moved back to western
Oklahoma.

What God has done with our son is typical of how God moves upon our
lives. It is like God wraps everything up in a beautiful package,
tying it all up with a bright red ribbon on top. He does that just so
that we know that it was God that made it all happen. There is no way
things like this could have ever been planned and brought about by
man. It is another of God’s “awesome deeds of righteousness.” It is a
God thing!

God has such great wisdom, far greater than any of us living here upon
this earth. Knowing this, why is it that we do not trust God more? Why
do we worry about such small and insignificant things when we serve
such a magnificent God? The Bible urges us always to pray and not to
lose heart (Luke 18:1). The Bible tells us not to be anxious about
anything, but to take all those worrisome things to God in prayer
(Philippians 4:6-7). The Bible tells us to focus in upon Jesus so that
we will not grow weary and lose heart (Hebrews 12:3). God is
continually telling us that He has this and we can trust Him with
whatever may be going on in our lives.

What “God thing” has God done in your life? What would God do in your
life if you placed your life in His hands? Think about some of the
great servants of God in the Bible. Joseph of the Old Testament was
sold as a slave by his brothers, but God used it for good eventually
bring Joseph’s family to safety as a result of this bad thing that had
happened. However, it only happened because Joseph persisted in
trusting God in spite of what seemed like terrible things that
occurred in his life. Eventually, we know what happened. It was like
God wrapped everything up in a beautiful package tying a bright red
ribbon on top just so everyone would know that this was a “God Thing.”
Only God could have done what was done in Joseph’s life bringing great
glory to God.

I want to encourage you to place your life into God’s hands. Allow God
to perform “awesome deeds of righteousness” in your life. Some day you
will look back and say, “That was a God thing!”

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