I found some notes I wrote a few weeks back, and now I’m expounding on the idea. They were just parts of a sentence, phrases like, “God owns all this, I’m just a renter” and “Piggy-Backing [on God]” was another one I remember. I have expounded on the idea and formed a collaboration of these phrases with what you’re about to read here to an argument that is reasonably undeniable. First, there are a list of attributes that only a true God could possess:
The true God, the one I worship is
Eternal –
Self-sufficient –
Immutable –
Omnipresent –
Omnipotent –
Omnibenevolent –
and Omniscient, among other things.
And thus, [therefore]
We’re not meant to know everyone in this life – just the ones that matter.
We’re not meant to experience everything in this world – just those things that matter.
We’re not meant to travel everywhere in this world – only to the places that matter.

Have you ever thought of asking the one that matters what really matters for you? Which matters you’ll experience and which of a host of matters you won’t? Who does that? I wouldn’t imagine many people approach life this way. Most of us are far too busy waking up and going about our day with some goals in mind to accomplish before the Sun goes back down again. It’s practicing the K.I.S.S. principle, the “Keep It Simple Stupid” syndrome. What if we weren’t in control at all? What if there was a God who is indeed omnipresent and omniscient, what then? Well the first thing you’ll notice is that [for a Christian] the part about “there’s always a tomorrow”, that notion goes sailing immediately out the window!

The more I’ve studied the Gospel the more I notice how flawed my own life is and how this life really doesn’t [completely] belong to me. Let me explain, I may be the pilot but I’m sure not the navigator. God is the navigator, he’s the one that shows me just how to get to “somewhere” or “some thing” and those things I need and those things I do not need. It’s God through the Holy Spirit interceding on my behalf, that’s where the brains are. That’s who knows what we as Christians, followers of Jesus Christ, “really need”.

I’m in this bible study group, it’s the second one I’ve ever attended and just going around the room hearing all the stories about individual lives, some great and some not so great; it’s easy to conclude that we’re all on separate paths in this life. No two lives are exactly alike, no experiences exactly alike. Think of it like this, we’re all living in the same galaxy under the same Sun, the same Moon on the very same planet and even jobs, and employers, complying with the same laws and government regulations yet we will have different experiences within any given set of constants. Humanity is like that – it’s a weave, a gargantuan woven tapestry. You’ll share relatives and interests and a ton of other attributes with people [woven into your life] but you’ll remain distinct, individually made, a true one-of-a-kind production each of us is. How else shall we explain life? Have you ever heard someone say to you, you have your mother’s eyes or your father’s jawline or smile, etc.? They’re all correct but there are still subtle differences that remain. Congratulations, we were all created as a “one-of-a-kind”, separate but in some ways equal, different but in some ways related. 😉 I found a couple passages to share that seem to convey some similar lines of thought:

Luke 11:9-10
“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” The You Version Bible app
Often times we never seek nor do we even ask in prayer.

John 21:18-22
“Jesus prophesied about Peter’s future: When you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go… Peter was martyred in Rome under Emperor Nero for his faith in Jesus Christ.: he was crucified upside down. In spite of what was to come, Jesus urged Peter, Follow me. And the New Testament shows that Peter did indeed humbly follow his Lord… Are you prepared to follow Jesus in good times and bad, at whatever the cost?

Peter turned around and saw John, the disciple Jesus loved… so Peter asked Jesus, What about him? Peter accepted that he had a martyr’s death awaiting him, but he wanted to know what Jesus’s plans were for John. Jesus’s response was short and to the point: If I want him to remain until I come (second coming)… what is that to you? As for you, follow me.

God has a general will for all of his people. This expressed in his biblical commands for all of his followers. But he also has a specific will for each individual Christian. Jesus graciously revealed to Peter his will for him. But he wasn’t about to tell Peter his specific will for John.

We are called to follow Jesus corporately as the church and personally as individuals. Each of us is to have a personal relationship with God through Jesus and seek to discern how he wants us to serve and glorify him. You are not to use God’s specific will for you to measure anyone else, nor are you to take his specific will for another and use it to measure your own circumstances. We are not to sit as judges regarding how God chooses to use other believers.” The Tony Evans Bible Commentary
Powerful stuff!

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