When God blows your mind
When God speaks to you, does he ever tell you things that blow your mind? In the Bible he’s always talking to his people and telling them stuff that is outside of their paradigm of life. It’s so fantastic that they can’t fully digest it. They come away incredulous and stuttering.
Jonah couldn’t handle the call to Nineveh. “Just kill me now, Lord! I’d rather be dead than alive if what I predicted will not happen.” (Jonah 4:3)
Moses couldn’t handle the call to lead a nation. “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.” (Ex. 4:13)
Isaiah encountered God and said, “Woe to me! I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips.” (Is. 6:5)
Peter was discombobulated on the mount of Transfiguration, initially terrified, then babbling on about building booths. (Matt. 17:4-6)
Has God ever blown your mind? Does he have the right to? When God speaks to you and asks you to do something that is going to cost you like it cost Paul when he deputized him to go as a missionary to the people he’d been terrorizing, how will you respond?
When Jesus told his disciples he was giving them authority to cast out demons, heal the sick and raise the dead, how do you think they responded? I’ll bet the general tone was like Bill Cosby telling the story of Noah talking to God. Where God tells him about this huge ship he’s to build and Noah says, “Right!”
How will you respond to God when he tells you to do something so impossible that only he can do it through you?
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God has spoken to me many times.I was not getting or eevn seeking the message because of my sinful ways.
But over time and my continued faith,Recklessly Abandoning myself,Repentance,continued working on my dispositios,and by Gods Grace now.I try to listen though my prayers and actually events that has taken place in my life through Faith,and MOST “IMPORTANT”by the “GRACE”OF “GOD”. I try SINCERELY NEVER to TAKE FOR GRANTED.Priase GOD and i Will continue to be a HUMBLE Servant through the BLOOD OF JESUS,i will CONTINUE to BEGGED FOR HIS FORGIVENESS AND HIS SALVATION.
“GOD IS MY FATHER AN SAVIOUR”
Gotta love Bill Cosby. I taught Childbirth Education classes for many years and would always play his clip on Natur-ahl Childbirth. Hilarious and a real ice breaker with lots of truth.
Anyway, I am in the midst of just another in a LONG series of “right”, more like “you have got to be kidding me, no way, well, yeah, right, whatever” situations in my life and every so often a flash appears that has an ill defined and out of focus image of what God may be up to.
But I am no longer trying to force it into focus. Instead I shrug my shoulders, mutter more to myself than anyone else, because He already knows the deal, “Whatever, you have it covered, I am weak but you are strong, and you don’t lie, so, well, umm, I guess I will just believe you” pray, quake a bit, and go on with the task at hand.
I am juggling about three of those “Yeah, right” situations at the moment, my mom recovering from a stroke and a shunt malfunction, a messy like divorce house sale, and building a room on to our home to accommodate my mom when she comes home. I may drop those balls, but God won’t.
You keep me thinking, praying and praising.
Not as good as Bill Cosby “Himself” but I do appreciate some oldies here and there. Good video for this topic…classic
The times that God “blows me away” is always when He talks about me, as in, what He thinks of me or how precious I am to Him……its like my mind, spirit, just cant take that in…..sinful me and God thinks THIS of me!
Other stuff like, doing something etc…..that to me is like when Mary “treasured it in her heart”. For example, I went to see Bon Jovi again 2 years ago as they were playing at the football stadium down the road from where I live. I went with my eldest son and we had tickets for the front. As the band started playing I heard God say out the blue “you will be up there one day preaching to this many people”…..my response is not one of “blowing my mind” because I know God can do anything. I didnt jump for joy either because it certainly is something Ive never even searched or wanted (most church leaders I know dont let me preach anymore. Havent done it for many years, neither do I want to resurect it as I get so nervous)so my reaction was more “ok Lord, I will keep that in mind”.
So in both situations…Gods love for me has to be the mind blowing thing…I believe MORE that I will end up preaching in a football stadium MORE than ever really believing the depth of Love God has for me.But knowing His love to the depth of my core will have a far greater effect on this world and those around me than any football stadium!