Wilde Possibilities

Jeremiah 29: 11 says, “I KNOW the plans I have for you….” “I know…”  indicates knowledge, assuredness, an assumption that someone has a plan for you other than the plan you have for yourself.  Someone has knowledge of your future.

    I have been watching a lot of Social Media speakers on relationships, each one with their own perspective and knowledge pertaining to a certain issue….infidelity, narcissism, divorce, singleness, how to be a boss, how not to be a “pushover”, how to “get your man back”, how to heal, how to move on, etc……the list goes on and on and on…. Each speaker speaks truth and knowledge based on their education or experience.  Each one gives an absolute, “truth” that cannot be changed….like the saying “once a cheater always a cheater”……. Or “a narcissist is only able to love themselves, or “if she has emotionally detached from you she is never coming back”….I am fascinated with all these blanket statements..” absolutes”… all these opinions and all the millions and millions of viewers that absorb them as fact. I would probably even say that a few years ago I might’ve thrown my hat in the ring….shared my own opinion…shared my “truth”…..

Many of you know parts of my story, and maybe some of you know all my story, but I think its safe to say that any of you who have read my blog can say with conviction that I am a believer in Jesus Christ and live to pattern my life after HIm and what God has designed for my life, so……. In light of what the Bible says Jeremiah 29:11 and myriad stories on the redemption of men from the very pit of hell……. David, Saul to Paul, the “centurion” the thief on the cross…etc……. 

     How can we possibly make blanket statements about other people, pass judgment according to what they have done, and write them off as now being “too far gone” and still say “nothing is impossible with God”? Those two statements……” a narcissist will only ever love himself”….and “nothing is impossible with God” are in direct contradiction to one another…..If nothing is impossible with God, doesn’t it stand to reason that God can change the Narcissist’s behaviors allowing him to love someone other than himself?   Do we believe that God is who He says He is or not?  Can He not make a blind man since birth, see,  or a man born lame, walk?  Can God not redeem an adulterer…….. David…….and make Him the very ancestor of Jesus Christ…not only redeem David and establish his thrown as King over a nation but give him a title that God only gave to one man in the entirety of HIs word…..” a man after God’s own heart?….

        Who are we to assume what God can and cannot do…..for goodness sake God spoke through a DONKEY!!! 

    Friends, I am talking right now to the believers who call themselves “Christians”….. what is wrong with us that we assume ANYTHING before our God?  We should be ashamed of ourselves for ever doubting ANYTHING less than the impossible with God.  What has happened to our faith?  Where have we lost our ability to trust…..can we call ourselves “followers of Jesus” if we cannot even stand in the midst of a trial and KNOW that it is for our good and God’s glory….KNOW that God is capable of healing, capable of redeeming, capable of changing someone into someone new?   

      I believe God will show up in our lives according to the access that we give HIm, according to the time that we devote to Him, and according to the surrender we allow Him.   How much time is yours, and how much of your time is the Lord’s?…… Why do we keep asking why the Lord doesn’t answer our prayers when we don’t even devote the time to Him to be still, listen, and obey? We don’t devote the time to pray, not just one and done, pray……on your face before the Lord believing in His timing and continually praying it through to fruition.    If you give God 10% of your life, heart, and soul, God will explode in that 10% because that’s who God the Father is and it’s what you gave Him.  Imagine what that loving Father would do if you gave Him 100% of your heart and soul.  God wants our everything so that He can give us everything…The catch…  He won’t “take” what He wants…He waits for it……. To be given!

    We hold on to our lives as if we have some semblance of control, too proud and too afraid to surrender to the only One who ‘knows” our future because stupidly we actually believe that we are in control, and we know best…….So, we give a Perfect, Holy God 10% of our lives and wonder why we feel “stuck”, unhappy, unfulfilled, anxious, desperate, depressed, alone, and believing what social media tells us, leaving our decision making up to the “opinions” of the “speakers” on media platforms.  Believing them as “truth”.  Why don’t you take your broken dreams, broken relationships, broken hearts, and broken spirits, to the only one who can ACTUALLY do something about them, ACTUALLY speak the truth, and ACTUALLY blow your mind by making what the world says is impossible……….possible!  

1Corinthians 2:9

“What no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived- God has prepared these things for those who love Him.”

Jeremiah 29:11-14

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity…..”