Hi everyone,
this is an extract from Max Lucado's book (God's Story, Your Story) i am reading : May it bless someone today.
When God locks a door, it needs to be locked.
When he blocks a path, it needs to be blocked.
When he stuck Paul and Silas in prison, God had a plan for the prison jailer. As Paul and Silas sang, God shook the prison. “At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose” (Acts 16: 26).
There God goes again, blasting open the most secure doors in town. When the jailer realized what had happened, he assumed all the prisoners had escaped. He drew his sword to take his life. When Paul told him otherwise, the jailer brought the two missionaries out and asked, “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16: 30). Paul told him to believe. He did, and he and all his family were baptized. The jailer washed their wounds, and Jesus washed his sins.
God shut the door of the jail cell so that he could open the heart of the jailer. God uses closed doors to advance his cause. He closed the womb of a young Sarah so he could display his power to the elderly one.
He shut the palace door on Moses the prince so he could open shackles through Moses the liberator.
He marched Daniel out of Jerusalem so he could use Daniel in Babylon.
And Jesus. Yes, even Jesus knew the challenge of a blocked door. When he requested a path that bypassed the cross, God said no. He said no to Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane so he could say yes to us at the gates of heaven.
God’s goal is people. He’ll stir up a storm to display his power. He’ll keep you out of Asia so you’ll speak to Lydia. He’ll place you in prison so you’ll talk to the jailer.
It’s not that our plans are bad but that God’s plans are better.
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” ISAIAH 55: 8– 9 NLT
And this is what God is trying to teach us. Your blocked door doesn’t mean God doesn’t love you. Quite the opposite. It’s proof that he does.
Lucado, Max (2011-09-20). God's Story, Your Story: When His Becomes Yours (Story, The) (Kindle Locations 1054-1055). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.
this is an extract from Max Lucado's book (God's Story, Your Story) i am reading : May it bless someone today.
When God locks a door, it needs to be locked.
When he blocks a path, it needs to be blocked.
When he stuck Paul and Silas in prison, God had a plan for the prison jailer. As Paul and Silas sang, God shook the prison. “At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose” (Acts 16: 26).
There God goes again, blasting open the most secure doors in town. When the jailer realized what had happened, he assumed all the prisoners had escaped. He drew his sword to take his life. When Paul told him otherwise, the jailer brought the two missionaries out and asked, “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16: 30). Paul told him to believe. He did, and he and all his family were baptized. The jailer washed their wounds, and Jesus washed his sins.
God shut the door of the jail cell so that he could open the heart of the jailer. God uses closed doors to advance his cause. He closed the womb of a young Sarah so he could display his power to the elderly one.
He shut the palace door on Moses the prince so he could open shackles through Moses the liberator.
He marched Daniel out of Jerusalem so he could use Daniel in Babylon.
And Jesus. Yes, even Jesus knew the challenge of a blocked door. When he requested a path that bypassed the cross, God said no. He said no to Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane so he could say yes to us at the gates of heaven.
God’s goal is people. He’ll stir up a storm to display his power. He’ll keep you out of Asia so you’ll speak to Lydia. He’ll place you in prison so you’ll talk to the jailer.
It’s not that our plans are bad but that God’s plans are better.
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” ISAIAH 55: 8– 9 NLT
And this is what God is trying to teach us. Your blocked door doesn’t mean God doesn’t love you. Quite the opposite. It’s proof that he does.
Lucado, Max (2011-09-20). God's Story, Your Story: When His Becomes Yours (Story, The) (Kindle Locations 1054-1055). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.
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