Daily Huddle - Sat Feb 20, 2021 Look Over

​Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It is just so good!  It is true, and God will reveal truth to you in it.  Some is on the surface, and some is beneath.  I love that God’s Word is the only true standard by which every word is measured.  It affirms what is true and exposes what is false.  It’s the template to test what you hear.  Someone once said, “You can’t fix stupid.”  Perhaps in some cases, but not all.  Actually, you can fix stupid.  We were all stupid at some point.  God said, the fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”  That puts him apart from God, and apart from God all you can be is stupid.  His Word is true, and wisdom resides with Him.  You can fix stupid!  You do it by His Word.  You don’t have to remain the way you are.  Get His Word, and apply it, and you will fix stupid, you’ll leave it behind.  It makes the simple, wise.  Proverbs 19:11 – A man’s wisdom gives him patience.  It is to his glory to overlook an offense.  Wow, not often practiced in today’s culture.  What about you?  What are you offended by?  How much energy – thought and word (which takes time and plants seed) do you allocate to it?  If time is your most precious commodity, how much of it do you invest in offense?  Those who take and hold offense easily are perpetually in mental and emotional turmoil, unrest.  But the wise man’s wisdom gives him patience.  Patience for what?  That God will handle the offense and the offender.  It will not prosper, He will turn it for your good.  “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the LORD.  Does your faith believe Him when He says that?  Are you patient – to let Him handle it, or do you take it upon yourself.  To overlook something means you are looking at something else… something higher, something better, His next step for you.  Vindication and vengeance are His, pouring out kindness is yours.  He will make it as burning coals on their head.  Patience is faith coming out.  Believing that God’s timing to make that right is the best timing.  You’re free to do His next step for your good!  You can take offense, or take His next step.  If you lack patience, you lack wisdom, and if you rehearse offense, you lack patience.  You’ll never run out of offenses if that’s what you want to focus on – people are idiots! But what are you if you think about what they do?  Certainly not wise.  You don’t really overlook something, you just look over it to the next thing.  It’s what you look at that helps you overlook something else.  Patience is focus.  Focusing on what God has for you, not what He doesn’t have yet.  When you focus on His next thing for your good, you overlook everything else, not just bad things, even second best…  Praying that you will always look at His next step for you, not the last thing someone did to you.  He’s got that, you just do you.  Praying that His Word will be your Word, and His Plan for you today – is your sole focus.  Take joy, not offense.  Rejoice for the steps of a righteous man and woman are ordered of the LORD.  He’s ordered good for you, overlook everything else.  Look at the next step He told you, because your next step brings your next victory, and your next testimony!  It’s waiting!  Your next joy is waiting, and your next step is His best!
 
Love you all,
dad