Making Sense of God

IF YOU BELIEVE in Christ, you'll know that you cannot make sense of God or what he's doing or what he plans to do without an encounter with Him.

JACOB tried to make sense of events as he ran from Esau.

As he lay to rest because the sun had set, he saw a stairway placed on earth, the top reached the heavens, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it and called the place Bethel, the gate of heaven. (Genesis 27:41; 28 verses 10-12)

You must desire to have encounters with God.

KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR encountered God when he saw the fourth man in the fiery furnace.

“Look! I see four men untied, walking around amid the fire, and they are not hurt! And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!” (Daniel 3:25)

His place of encounter was his place of revelation.

TO UNDERSTAND GOD or your situation, you need a revelation of Him.

BALAAM encountered God when God opened his eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand; he bowed his head and lay face down. (Numbers 22 verses 22-28)

PAUL encountered God in the place of prayer.

To keep him from thinking of himself as important, a thorn in the flesh was given to him, a messenger of Satan, to torment and harass him, to keep him from exalting himself!

And when he pleaded, God said: My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation]; for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively] in [your] weakness.” [2 Corinthians 12, verse 9]

Someone said, "Race is when you run alone. Grace is when you run with God. "

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND your situation, you need to wait on God and for Him.

PAUL understood his situation better as they sailed; he fasted for days.

And an angel of the Lord appeared at night and told him that God had given him the lives of everyone sailing with him. (Acts of Apostles 27 verses 23-27)

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Race is when you run alone. Grace is when you run with God.

TO KNOW GOD better, you must pray that he opens your eyes.

David said: Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold wonderful things from Your law. (Psalm 119:18)

You need to see God in the pages of the Bible.

GOD opened Hagar’s eyes, and she saw a well. She filled a bottle of water and gave it to her son. (Genesis 21 verses 19-21)

GEHAZI was initially panicked when he saw an enemy army surrounding their city.

However, Elisha prayed that God would open his (spiritual) eyes—and God did. (2 Kings 6 verses 17-20)

TO MAKE SENSE of life, your life must give God pleasure.

Moses was confused when he fled Egypt. He knew he had a call on his life, but didn't understand it. He found it easier to find a wife than to pursue his purpose. (Exodus 2:21)

Pray daily to God that your life will give Him pleasure.

MOSES couldn't worship God without knowing Him, and his life couldn't please God without a relationship with Him.

1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of [our great] God.”

You cannot be intimate with someone you do not know.

TO MAKE SENSE of your calling, you must be sent.

Moses couldn't go without being sent.

Romans 10:14 says, “But how will people call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher (messenger)?”

Moses needed a message from God to lead God’s people. You have no business at the pulpit without a message from God.

TO UNDERSTAND GOD, you need an affirmation from him.

Rahab’s testimony to the Hebrew spies was an affirmation.

She said, “We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you destroyed.

When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear, and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below. (Joshua 2 verses 10-11)

God confirmed Moses as his servant when he made him like God to Pharaoh. (Exodus 7:1)

He affirmed Abraham when he said:

“For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and [the sons of] his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is righteous and just, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has promised him.” (Genesis 18:19)

Pray that God will affirm you.

Final Thought

IF YOU'RE going to make anything with God, you must trust Him.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.