His Way is Perfect

His Way is Perfect

Control. Our lives are all about it right? Advertisements tell us how to “control the way we feel”, “control our finances” etc. We are told in the corporate world to “Own [control] our career”. Which is all fine, we think we have control over it, until one day.....

LIFE HAPPENS.

Your house burns down, your child is sent to the hospital, you get into a bad accident, a company sues you and it all comes crashing down. Anyone of these things would send most into a spiral, but what if they all happened at once?

Your life would be in the hands of doctors, lawyers, nurses, police, and most of all people that you don't even know. Your “control” over your life just vanished within seconds.

What do we do then? How do we handle it. Many would be paralyzed in fear from the ground up. What then after we've cried all we can cry? What then after our fears have shaken us to the very core?

We still won't be in control.

See, the funny thing, all the way back to Adam is the idea that humans have control at all in this world. We have free will to make choices, but besides forcing our will on some inanimate object (much like blogging), every action that happens around us is the result of another person or creature.

I'm going to say this for clarity, every action we take on our own in response to an event will most always be for naught. If we take our own counsel or the counsel of those who don't know Christ, we will utterly fail.

The psalmist writes in Psalm 1 that the righteous man does not take counsel from the ungodly but his delight is in the law which he meditates on everyday.

That righteous man also most likely knows Psalm 119:94 as well which tells us “This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true...”, and that is the reason he meditates on it everyday. If God's word is true, then what His word says about the direction of life is the roadmap we should follow.

BUT

There's always a “but”; just because we follow in His precepts, does not mean we'll land abundantly on the other side. There's a whole side of Christianity that promises “prosperity” if we just follow what God says.

God doesn't promise us prosperity, he doesn't promise us riches or glory, He promises us Peace and an expected end. God told Jeremiah, and I've written about this particular verse before, a promise. This promise was particular for Israel, but I firmly believe we can use it in our Christian life everyday. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

The Psalmist called God's way or His plans, perfect, and even though your life might be crumbling, there are two take aways here. 1.) God's plan is perfect. 2.) You are not in control, but God is.

So when your life crumbles and you finally see that you are not in control, give your life over to God, as you should have done in the first place, and let Him show you how little you really are. Let Him show you how much you can't control. Let Him show you He knows the bigger picture.