Give God an Excuse

Today while having lunch with a good friend, we were discussing the way and working of God. It came to me as we discussed, that often God is looking for an excuse.

The nature of God, we see reflected in our own makeup. A sense of competing values. A desire for justice, but loving mercy. A need for judgement, yet longsuffering. Competing values within the same person.

When God was fed up with the wickedness of the world... but God found an excuse to spare the world and save Noah.

When God had decided to destroy Sodom, he bargained to say if only 10 righteous souls he would spare them all for those few who were good.

"If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?"

In his dealing with you and I, there have been many times where if it were left to the letter of the law... we would all be suffering the beginning of eternal torment... but God gave us grace and time to find our way to a place of repentance... and in that repentance God was given an opportunity to do what he does best.

When it comes to healing... he is just waiting on someone to open the door...

When it comes to deliverance... he is waiting on someone to cry out...

It seems in this world and it's nature of spiritual laws, God does nothing without being invited in, called upon or some individual to be a conduit and emmissary to bring the will of heaven in this wicked world.

... thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven....

God is looking for an excuse... permission to work...

God will work, but who will let him?

If we seek the Lord... he will be found...

If we call, he will answer.

If we repent and confess, he will forgive and restore..

It is amazing to me to consider the fact that A God that created all that there is placed within the will and deciding of Man the power to let God be God in their individual life. Without a doubt God does at times build a prayer room for you and put you in a position to where calling on him is the only option you have... however the world and eternity will be full of people who even when down to nothing, still surrendering, repenting and trusting God was not the choice they made.

My simple words of encouragement today is this.... God wants to bless you. God wants to forgive you. God wants to restore you.

He is simply looking for an excuse to do it.

Let Him.