Something happened during October 1, something to the effect that we’re reminded that God answers prayers even before we ask for them.
And that’s what I was brought to share during our last midweek service.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Matthew 6:8
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Matthew 6:31-32
Yeah, I’m sorry, I took a walk and I still couldn’t remember what exactly led me to sharing that perspective of God’s omniscience. God’s wisdom transcends time, and is beyond time – much so that we can make the claim that, again, He is able to answer what we pray for before we pray for it.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26:3-4
All the more reason for us to place our trust in Him. He not only knows our past, our present and all the paths and options we have in our future – But in His infinite wisdom, and in His great glory not without His grace, He knows how it all ties in together.
…And not only that, but just as we are always in the Father’s grace, and as we are always seated with Christ in the heavenly places, and as we have the Holy Spirit alive in us here and now – So our past, our present, and our future, and all the highways and connections that bring it all together – ALL of our being is in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, just as God is in all that concerns us; not only through time, but through space.
Insane as that may sound, it certainly presents me with even more cause and reason to trust in Him. Truly, in Him all things have been made, and to the point of my rambling in this particular article… in Him, all things are held together.
To Him be all the glory and praise, forever and ever.
Oh, right. Just sharing this, making this really quick, shorter than usual – I have a whole lot more to write, don’t worry. It’s all coming very soon.
Until the next post, God bless us all.
UPDATE:
Something I realized through the day – It works both ways.
There will be times when we realize that God has been giving us what we need far before we asked for them, and there will also be times when we determine that He has given us answers far before we ever had some of our questions.
I was also reminded that our past stumbling has its own potential to come back to haunt us; Or, there may even be things we didn’t realize were detrimental to us that only impact us so many years or even decades later.
What I realize I should be doing is, instead of just leaving it at that, is to remember that Christ was there at the absolute beginning, just as He is with us until the end.
In other words, we give thanks, because this Savior in whom we believe in was, is, and is to come – present before the concept of the beginning, and far beyond the concept of the end.
Before any of our prayers or stumbling, and, I dare say, before the thought of us even ever came into being, He was there – and just He was there, so He will be there, past all answered prayers, and past all consequences, at the end of time and space and all our senses perceive as reality.
Now THAT presents me with even more cause and reason to trust in Him.
To God be all the glory and praise, forever and ever.
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