((( What do you do? When you don't know what to do?)))
We as human being we were created and made little low than God, and God crowned us with His glory and honor. God did so, so that we can find solace in Him and always look to Him for A Way Out, because we as human beings we can't figure it all out.
There is a time when anxiety attacks, there is a time where we become terrified. We are striving beings and our minds is wired in a way that it is able to spontaneously think of A Way Out, but there comes a time when it shuts down! It is when an individual has depression, when we feel exhausted, guilty, empty, and hopeless. We see that there is no way out when our streams of intelligence, resources, wealth and education reach a point where they can't function or give us A Way Out. Then we will ask for rain in order to fill our streams, no one sends the rain except God who created us (Zech 10:1).
Culture is the ability to find a way out, it is not a way out. Human beings initiated tradition in order to find a way out. Myles Monroe once said "tradition is an enemy of change". Change is A Way Out, tradition is something that was used at a certain season for that season to give us A Way Out, that is tradition. The word trade comes from tradition, because our ancestors once trusted in things that God gave them through His grace to relieve and give the oppressed an escape. Then they trusted and worshiped things that God created in order to give them A Way Out and our ancestors made those things fashion and culture to survive by them in every season, but all they had was distress and misery. Tradition is when we trade futile and expired practices to the next generation that will experience new crisis that need the grace of God not tradition. Tradition is an enemy of God favor.
God solved it once and for all by sending Christ into the world, because people embraced their ancestors and their traditions instead of embracing God. Jesus Christ is our only getaway token from sin, condemnation, guilt and anxiety etc, as the Hebrew writer says "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Heb 1:1-2 KJV)"
Jehoshaphat the king of Israel, the mighty man of valor, the man who was trusted by his companions. Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, God blessed Him, he was also excellenct in everything and had vast mighty army, but there came a time in his life when he didn't know what to do. As a king, he couldn't figure out what to do, having all power and majesty, but he didn't know what to do. The armies of the Moabites, Ammonites, and some of the Meunites declared war on Jehoshaphat. Anxiety attacked and he didn't know what to do, the king feared and was in great distress.
What do you do? when you don't know what to do? It can happen that we are busy trying to find a way out using our tradition and norms, but new situations do not need a norm to conquer but they need the grace and mercies of God that are new everyday. When you don't know what to do, we let go and let God move. In our new series you need God for A Way Out!
[ O our God, won't you stop them? We are powerless against this mighty army that is about to attack us. We do not know what to do, but we are looking to you for help.]
(2 Chronicles 20:12 NLT)
GraceUponGrace.
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