A day at Dunkin Donuts...yummy :)

Dunkin Donuts always brings good conversations and good coffee :) ...

Today I decided to take the day and do some serious reading. I had a sermon that I was going to read by the Father of Elizabeth Prentice called God's Ways Above Men's. Dunkin Donuts was the place I went.
I ordered some coffee and an egg sandwich and started reading. The bases of the sermon was from Isaiah, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
I am not going to preach the sermon again, but there were some great things that stuck out. One of those being, how can we as humans, who are ever changing and growing in wisdom and knowledge, question the God who is omniscient and infallible? He must know so much more than we can ever even comprehend to know, what exists to know. If we were in charge, which a lot of times we try to be in our minds, we would have done things so much differently and they would not have worked!
The fact that many people will say, "Well because you can't explain this to me about God, I am not going to believe He exists," is all the more reason that He really is God. How could we serve a God that we know everything about? How could He really be eternal and infinite if we could understand why He does everything that He does?
But much of the time, we try to set ourselves up as judges. We believe we know what He wants, we know what is right, and we know truth. As the author of the sermon said the fact of the matter is as Proverbs states, "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is a folly and shame to him" How can we think we even understand what God is doing. There is so much to Him, that we don't even know we are missing it. We have been called to trust, to believe His ways are good. This is what we need to do.

As I finished reading this sermon. I opened my Bible and read through Job 38-42. In the midst of my reading a lady walked over. "I see you are reading the Bible, I study the Bible too." she said.
I looked up and smiled, "Oh you do? That's really cool. Where do you go to church?"I asked.
"I go to the Jehovah's witness church," she replied. I thought to myself, who can know the mind of God.. I decided since she approach me I was going to just share what I was reading.
We had a 5 minute conversation or so mostly with me talking about the greatness of God, how His ways are so much higher than ours, how nothing we do could make Him give us His grace, and everything we do is as filthy rags, then we read Romans 3. She then asked if she could come to my house for a farther study. I thought to myself, usually these people you never want to come to your house because they like to argue about scripture and I don't like to do that. But again, who can know the mind of God. I told her that would be fine because I loved to talk about things of the Lord.

Who knows what will happen..but as she left, I thought to myself, How sad it is that people are blinded by their own righteousness. How many even in our christian rings would people declare you have to be a good person. Even myself sometimes, I think that I have the "answers", but I am still a human not deserving of God's love and grace. He is the one that has change my life! Who are any of us to declare that our way is right? It is not our way. It is God's way. God's way is right. He hasn't done anything how we would do it. He took tax collectors and prostitutes and gave them Himself and changed their lives. He has done the same thing for me. And that lady today, even though she is trying to make herself a Righteous person by doing things she thinks will make God give her what she wants...He has already done it for her. He wants her. He wants to change her life. Christ did not come for the righteous but to bring sinners to repentance. Sinners...last time I checked everyone falls into that category.