God can do whatever He wants. Whatever He pleases, He does (Psalm 135:6).
Sometimes I have to remind myself of this. Sometimes, I don’t like what He’s doing. Sometimes, character building is hard and painful. Sometimes, trusting God is the last thing I want to do. Sometimes, I want Him to step in and stop all the bad stuff in this fallen world.
I want Him to do more than comfort me. I want Him to do more than cut a path through the dense darkness of this world. I want Him to do more than tell me He’s with me and so all things are possible.
I want to see it with my eyes. Now. I want Him to physically fix it, not just make a way through it. I want Him to physically, materially hang out with me, hold my hand, speak the word, and alter my reality.
But God doesn’t work like that. He could, but He doesn’t. He is spirit, and the physical is a manifestation of the spiritual. He stepped into the physical world. And He showed us that no matter what the physical world throws at us, even death, He overcame, and He overcomes. He’s bigger than it all.
But I still want Him to physically step into my life. Today. Work His wonders.
Okay, I know He works His wonders all the time, and physical miracles happen. But I’m talking more than that.
I want Him here with me, physically in front of my eyes.
But there are a couple problems with that. One, what I want is not always the best thing for me. Only He knows what’s best. Only He sees everything. From every angle.
And that’s the second problem. If He were here physically, doing what I want – which I already established is not a good thing – then He wouldn’t be there. He wouldn’t be everywhere. He would be subject rather than ruler.
The physical is a manifestation of the spiritual. The spiritual is the root, where it all begins.
And God is the beginning and the end. The first and the last.
And He can do whatever He wants. And apparently, He wants me. So He created me, spiritual in a physical body. One day, the physical will be destroyed and I will be with Him in eternity.
For now, He does what He wants and I get what I need.
I get a God who is above all gods. I get a God who is over all, who created it all, who commands it all. Who knows better than I do. Praise the Name of the Lord.
