Did You Ask God?

In a world where everybody wants to be an original we are far too concerned about the popularity of our choices.

Popularity will not revive a city. Popularity will not better the lives of children and popularity will not save the lost.

What do I mean by that? Satan, the enemy of our souls is a deceiver. That’s his method of operation. It has been for centuries. He masks the truth with lies. He plays on our feelings, emotions and our desire to be included and loved.

Truthfully, God gave us those desires. Love and inclusion are a part of our make-up. BUT, friends, nothing but a true relationship with God our Father will fill those longings.  

Satan works in the shadows. He hurries us, pressures us; makes us feel like we don’t have any other choice.

That is a lie. We always have a choice.

That’s a tough pill to swallow. I don’t like to acknowledge that I always have a choice. It would be much easier on my ego if I could blame all the choices that didn’t work out on someone or something else.

But… it doesn’t work that way.

It is very important in the day and time in which we live, where information is literally at our fingertips, that we do our due diligence before making decisions.

Think I’m a broken record if you want to, but our choices matter (Daily Devos Psalm 1).

You and I are not smart enough to see Satan’s end game. We must ask God for wisdom, revelation and insight before we make decisions.

In Isaiah 46:10, God says that He knows, declares, the end from the beginning. He is the One Who knows your enemy’s plans, which are for your destruction (John 10:10).

James 1:5 (AMPC)

If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.

I love that translation, “ask the giving God”! No faultfinding, reproach or withholding. God is waiting for us to ask Him for wisdom. One thing that He keeps telling me in my time with Him is that wisdom isn’t just knowledge or information. It is also what we should do with the knowledge and information that we have.

How do we process the information, what does it mean and what do we do with the information we have?

God has good plans for us, plans for peace and not for evil, to give us a hope and future (Jeremiah 29:11 AMPC). Are we doing our part to see those plans come to pass?

If we do not include God in our choices then He cannot be responsible for their outcome.

Proverbs 16:25 (MSG)

There’s a way that looks harmless enough; look again- it leads straight to hell.

Remember I said that Satan is a deceiver?

Merriam-Webster defines deceive this way:

                To cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid

                Ensnare

                Cheat

                To be false

I do not want to make decisions that will effect my children and generations to come based on progressive popularity rather than the unchanging, immovable Word of God.

I do not want to be deceived. We must ask our Good Father, the Giving God, to shed His light over our circumstances and share what His thoughts are concerning decisions we are facing and choices we must make.