The other night in church, our associate Pastor, Pastor Neil, who also has his own blog, of which can be located under my links to the right (I recommend you read his blogs, they are very good), was teaching a message on being connected to the right people. The message, as usual was very good, but what caught my attention the most was a statement he made. He said, God picks up where man stops. That statement to me is most profound, because when I think about it, that's what God is waiting to happen. I know what Pastor Neil was talking about when he made that statement, man can only take us so far, and when he does, then God picks up and takes us the rest of the way. But for me, I also see something else. When I can't go anymore, when I'm at the end of my rope, when I've gone as far as Jesse Wilson can go, God picks up where most often, I'm forced to stop. Not stopping because I'm quitting, though I've been down that road before, but stopping because I just can't go any further in my own strength and limited knowledge. Its when we come to that point that God picks up and takes us where we can't go ourselves. I believe Job had to come to that place, he tried to figure out what was going on in his life, even making assumptions about God without really knowing what he was talking about. I love what God says in chapter 40 of Job, He asks, "Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it" Then for the rest of the chapter and all of chapter 41 God says in essence to Job, "If you can do the things I do Job, then I'll gladly step aside and declare your God" Then Job coming to the end of himself, stops and says in chapter 42, "I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from you". When he stopped, God picked it up from there! If you wonder what's going on in your life, and where God has been, maybe, just maybe He's waiting for you to stop, so He can pick up where you left off. And that my friends, is the reality of it!
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Jesse, as I was reading this post I glanced down at the one below concerning Manifest Destiny. It dawned on me that the way that we keep going and reaching our manifest destiny is when we get to the point that God has to take us there. I too have been in that place when I wanted to keep going but could not go one step further and when I crashed I didn't burn because His strength became perfect in my weakness. I thank you for the encouraging word, how important it is that we rest in God's strength!
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