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When God Leads

by Robert [Bob] Schaetzle Sr. 
11/11/24
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                           When God Leads
                                     By Robert Schaetzle

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:8 ESV

How precious it is when we come to recognize GOD’S guidance and presence is more important than knowing the answer. I remember reading a thought that really inspired me.
“Sanctification is the progressive restoration of a man’s rationality so that he becomes a man.” (J I Packer)

All this is to say, who we become as a ‘new creatures in Christ,’ determines how much others will recognize a greater desire to want what we have. To be our Lord’s witness to extend His power to far reaches (Acts 1:8), it must be understood Who is equipping and leading us.

Recognizing the sufficiency of God’s grace and resource allows us to witness His preeminence building us. To be better servants and witness to the needy still searching for everlasting hope that is not yet seen. (Romans 8:24-25)

There is much treasure what the Apostle Paul reminded us in Romans 14:8-9, ‘For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.’

There truly is treasure to have possession of all God’s promises. When the abiding presence of His holy Spirit in us is recognized by the outside world, we truly are a demonstration of-‘greater is He who is in us…’ (1 John 4:4) much more than anything we might say.

We will demonstrate joy to others in our own living. A life with God’s ‘progressive restoration,’ in our own growing and learning as we become our Savior’s ‘Fishers of men.’  

Father, thank you for your resources to take hold in our daily walk by faith witnessing your Spirit and word at work in us… AMEN

Robert serves in a Sharing and Caring Ministry to strengthen and encourage God’s presence in us