Do you ever have trouble imagining that God truly desires good for your life? Do you have difficulty believing that He not only can, but wants to do more than we could ever ask or imagine?
Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21
Are you one of those who knows God can do anything, but you have difficulty imagining He would do it for you? Or that you are allowed to even ask? Do you find it easy to believe good things for others, but not yourself?
Today, I’d like to challenge you to lay down your previous understandings and expectations. Now look into Jesus’ eyes and ask Him what He imagines for you.
When you sit quietly and close your eyes, ask Jesus to come and sit with you. Ask Him to come and look at you. Tell Him you’d like to see into His eyes. It’s a glorious thing to look into the eyes of eternity. His eyes are swimming with loving kindness. His eyes always dance with Light. His eyes feel safe. His eyes are like a hug. He is quite simply amazing.
Will you take this moment?
When you see into His eyes and ask that question… “What do you imagine for me?” The next step is believing what He shows you.
I can’t tell you how many times I listen to people say they heard Jesus say something wonderful to them, then they immediately question it and wonder if it was their own thought. In anticipation of that happening for you, I’ll ask this…
Are your thoughts for yourself usually too good to be true? Or are they usually negative and/or small?
That ought to clear things up pretty quickly.
His thoughts for us are good. Often, they feel too good to be true. I often tell others, “If it seems too good to be true, then it’s probably God.”
His thoughts aren’t our thoughts. His ways aren’t our ways. His are above ours. His ways are higher than our ways.
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:6-11
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