GOD IS RIGHT AND PERFECT IN ALL HIS WAYS


“Your people will be willing in the day of Your power.” Psalm 110:3

How often have we disagreed with someone or ignored their advice, and then later found out how wrong we were? How many times have we had to apologize and acknowledge the other person was right? This describes a tendency in our relationship with God. We question Him as if He doesn’t know what He is doing or as if He is evil or mischievous in His motives and methods. This results in reluctant obedience, and it robs us of joyful and willing surrender to God’s will.

Some go through the motions of obedience but without a change of heart. They give outward conformity without inner transformation. Others obey because they fear the threat of discipline or punishment. David, on the other hand, repented and asked God to change his heart (Ps 51:10). He asked the Lord to uphold him with a “willing” spirit (Ps.51:12). David is asking God to bring him to a higher level of obedience. He sees and understands God's love and wisdom. He has a vision of who God is. David’s prayer echoes the words expressed in Psalm 110: 3. “Your people shall be willing in the day of your power.”

One of the greatest revelations we can have is to really see with our mind and spiritual eyes that God is right and perfect in all His ways and judgments. What He tells us in terms of how to live and behave is actually the best way to live. This truth will help us in the face of every temptation. It helps us to remember that the lusts of the flesh are deceitful and Satan is a liar. Every temptation to sin carries a false promise. The pleasures of sin really are only for a season.

God is right. He is never wrong. His ways, His word, and His judgment are righteous, just, and true. If we were to really see and know this truth, we would offer ourselves to obey and serve Him without reservation. We would say no to the lies that come to us in the temptations of the flesh, the devil, and the world system. We would joyfully say yes to God if we only knew who it is who speaks to us, if we really knew Him and the gift He brings (John 4:10), we would not wait for Him to ask, we would be volunteering freely to serve Him and His will and to walk in His ways.

The people who serve God are not robots programmed to serve. They follow Him because He is a wonderful and awesome God, and because He IS God. He is right and perfect in all His ways. He allows evil because He does not force men to submit against their will. Rebellious men in this age often yield and surrender in the face of great power simply because they have been overcome and unable to resist. This is a begrudging, reluctant, and forced surrender. But when men stand before Almighty God our Creator in that great day of the Lord, they will not only yield but will face the clear, absolute, and incontrovertible truth that God is right and has always been right. In that day everyone will realize the utter and total foolishness of his own ways and will be compelled by the sheer force of reality and truth to admit that God is righteous and that rebellious man was in error and wrong. There will be no darkness or cloudy thinking in the presence of God. There will be no lies or deception. There will be no excuses, no pretending, no games, no manipulation, no false accusations, no perversions of truth, and no legal technicalities to obstruct justice. God will judge righteously according to absolute truth. Man will be absolutely “naked” except for those who in repentance and obedience have been justified by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ and His blood which was shed for us on the cross. They will be clothed with His righteousness. Therefore, let us willingly and joyfully surrender to Jesus Christ our Lord. He has made redemption and the riches of His grace “abound to us in all wisdom and prudence” (Ephesians 1:9).

“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33).

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