How Oft

My last blog post was “Things Change”  which I posted a couple weeks ago.  When I wrote that, I had no idea what changes were in store for me. I’d been kicking around some ideas for the future, but couldn’t really see a way that I’d be able to accomplish them.  When I try to figure things out, I’m limited to what I know and what I can imagine. God’s ways are above mine. When He inspired me with the framework of these ideas, He already had the details worked out. All my fretting and figuring didn’t even scratch the surface of what God already had in motion.
When you can’t see a way out just know that God has doors that you don’t even know about.  He has a way that the vulture knows nothing about.  He has a Way where there seemeth to be NO WAY.  Greg’s inability to figure out God’s plan has no bearing on God’s ability to fulfill it.

It reminds me that so often we go through life wearing the blinders of this life.  I tend to look at things through a very narrow window.  Only seeing what is in the lens of that moment but so often my focus is not on God’s Plan, it’s on my wants or my problems.  I must practice and make a habit of bringing God into the picture, into focus from the beginning.

I recently posted a comment on facebook about how that in photography, especially video, that the main subject is in focus, but everything else becomes blurry.
In life, if my focus is indeed on Jesus, then the problems and the cares and concerns of this world become less focused and fade into the background.  The opposite is also true, in that, if you focus on the problems, or on the successes or on your own plans then Jesus fades into the background of your life. Then when you face a need and start to look for Him, He’s no longer in the frame at all.  Not by His choice but by our neglect.

So, I traveled to work this morning and was singing as I often do, the words of this little chorus started flowing, just the little chorus. Then later, as I went about my day the rest of the lines began filling in, and I figured I’d better write them down.
I’m fully aware that this is God speaking to me and chastening me. But if there’s something that you can learn from this, from my lesson then take it.

How Oft

How Oft I would have called you out
How Oft I would have used thee
How Oft I would have called you out
but Often you refuse me

Refusals rarely put in words
but actions and in deeds
Ignoring when I call your name
My call you do not heed

I wanted most to be the one
on whom you would Depend
To be beside you all the way
To be your closest Friend

If you would listen
And talk to Me some too
there’d be no Situation
We can’t get through

Everything I’ve ever done
has been with you in mind
To bring you Peace and Love and Joy
No better Frind you’ll find

How Oft will you receive of Me
And let Me be your All
I’ll open Heavens Windows
Won’t you heed my Call

This may all seems a little scattered, but it all flows from the same place and fits together perfectly in my head and heart.
God has a plan, the success of His plan for me doesn’t require my understanding only my participation.

God Bless You Richly
Greg