Does God Really Know What’s Best?
Don’t Live Your Life Without God!
There is only one person who knows what’s best for your life, everyone else is just guessing. So, talk to God, read His Word, and learn to listen. All the answers to life’s mysteries are wrapped up in Him. True forgiveness, life everlasting, and the real meaning and purpose of life are only found in God. After 48 years of knowing God, I can assure you it is the only life worth living. Consider what His Word says:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “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)
God’s thoughts and ways are superior to the thinking and practices so prevalent in our world. Consequently, most of us are more comfortable and prefer our natural thinking and practices over God’s truth. Even a born-again Christian must study, learn to listen, and follow the thoughts and ways of God. We must all “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord” while at the same time knowing we are goofed up, a kind of work in progress. Through our experiences, we come face-to-face with our imperfections, while at the same time we come to understand that through Christ’s sacrificial death we are declared perfect and righteous in God’s sight (2 Cor. 5:21).
I know this sounds crazy to some, but each of us must come to our own personal understanding that the thinking and practices of this world must be rejected and replaced with God’s ways and thinking. The world bombards us with information about every subject under the sun. From a natural perspective, your parents, siblings, family members, friends, business associates, academia, social media, news outlets, and everyone else is sharing seemingly good information that takes a lifetime to process and realize they may have been well-meaning but were mostly wrong. God offers us what is best in opposition to what the world calls good. He declares, your thoughts and ways are not mine. They are in fact insufficient. It is not possible to build successful lives upon a flawed philosophy, and it takes humility to admit we are limited in getting life right. This is why we read in the Bible:
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2)
Through Christ, our minds can be renewed as we read His word, talk with Him, and listen to Him. This is no self-help hype but a supernatural restoration in our thinking and behavior that comes from an intimate relationship with God the Creator. The wisdom and knowledge of God supersedes what the natural world offers. To follow the ways of the world brings despair, destruction, and death. The ways of this world may look good, feel good, and seem harmless, but the unforeseen consequences are destructive. Beware, ignoring God has really bad consequences in this life and eternally.
It is not possible to follow the world’s ways and God’s ways at the same time because they are opposing principles. So many people in this world are clinging to an empty philosophy that boasts of greatness but will never bring true and lasting satisfaction. The straight forward truth is that we have been lied to. We have been deceived into following a flawed belief system that cannot lift us to the supernatural life God desires we possess. It is only when we truly realize that this world’s wisdom at best is inadequate and our lives are in desperate need of more than this world can provide that we seek God. To all who are hungry and thirsty for true life God says:
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. 3 Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. (Isaiah 55:1-3)
Isaiah’s metaphoric language speaks to our deep longing for an abundant life overflowing with rich satisfaction, not only in this life but the life to come. We are told that this fullness of life cannot be purchased or acquired through hard work. You can labor your entire life acquiring an abundance of material things and will still feel unfulfilled. There is no amount of money that can purchase the peace of God or eternal life. We cannot possess God’s supernatural joy and true satisfaction without first making Christ Lord of our lives. God says, “Listen, listen to me,” all who thirst for true satisfaction. Come and drink freely from the life-changing springs of living water. Isn’t it time you taste and discover the marvelous infinite matchless love of God?
I urge you to do as so many others and turn your life over to Jesus now.
How to Turn to God
Perhaps at this very moment, you have realized that you need the Lord in your life. Maybe you drifted away or need to be been born again? If so, you can stop right now and begin talking to God. Ask Him to forgive you for being a sinner and the life you have been living outside of His love. Surrender your life to Him, unconditionally. Call Him Lord and make Him Lord of every thought, attitude, and action. You can say, Lord Jesus, forgive me for all my sins and come into my heart and take full control of my life. I am your child from this day forward. Change my heart and mind to be Christ-like in every way. I confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior forever.
