"But GOD is too good not to be true" (Guzik).
Read that again.
"But GOD is too good not to be true".
These words jumped off the page of a commentary
for a verse that GOD placed right in front of me,
on a card that I had not noticed before
yet it greeted me this morning
in my fruit bowl.
I immediately wept,
as it pierced my heart with such
HOPE,
and then I DOUBTED it was from GOD.
Yup.
And why?
Because it was
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
So silly, to even think it, yet I did.
Can you relate?
You PRAY.
And you PRAY.
And then GOD sends an answer
in a way that you didn't expect,
because that is what GOD does.
Oh HE is so unpredictably predictable,
because when HE shows up
HE IS PREDICTABLE,
as HE is PREDICTABLY GOOD ALL THE TIME,
yet HIS TIMING and HIS WAYS
can not be predicted.
How is GOD GOOD when HE sends HIS SON
to be born in a stable
and to be crucified
and to hang on a cross
and to bleed to death
and to be laid in a tomb as dead for 3 days.
Doesn't sound so GOOD, does it?
For GOD'S WAYS are not our WAYS.
It is like HE keeps us guessing
or is it is HIS WAY
to have us
KEEP BELIEVING IN THE UNPREDICTABLE?
For JESUS DID RISE.
For JESUS DID say HE WOULD.
"The SON OF MAN is going to be delivered into the hands of men.
They will kill HIM, and after three days HE will rise” *
Oh how we miss the small print~
THE GLORY OF HIS STORY.
Oh how I missed it this morning
when GOD showed up,
greeting me with this verse,
“Your sun WILL no longer set,Nor WILL your moon wane;For the LORD WILL be your everlasting light,And the days of your mourning WILL be over" (Isaiah 60:20).
As I mourn for what is lost,
yet HOPE filled my soul,
BUT then DOUBT
came rushing in
because
IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
For DOUBT comes with GRAVE,
even though JESUS said HE would RISE,
the word RISE was buried when
they saw JESUS was dead and buried.
"But they did not understand what HE meant
and were afraid to ask HIM about it"* (Mark 9:31-32).
Did you catch it?
FEAR blocked THE TRUTH.
The same FEAR that blocked GOD'S TRUTH to me this morning.
THE FEAR of actually having
HIS JOY ,
even in the midst of my mourning.
BUT isn't that why JESUS IS HERE.
HE is our JOY~
ALWAYS.
What a roller coaster I have been on,
because of EASTER this year,
as it has been an EASTER where
GOD has taken me
beyond the CROSS
and into the GRAVE
where my JESUS laid for 3 days
IN WAITING
to do what HE said HE would do.
Oh it sounded TOO GOOD to be true.
"But GOD is too good not to be true".
JESUS ROSE!
TOO TRUE!
So will you
RISE up
and
RUN THIS RACE called LIFE with me,
by
FACING THE FACE of DOUBT,
in whatever the face of DOUBT wears in your life,
with
GOD'S TRUTH
that is
TOO GOOD TO NOT BE TRUE.
And all you and I have to do is
"BELIEVE FOR IT"
(listen to the song below)