“WE WALK!”

 2 Corinthians 5:5-7                 (ESV)

“[5] HE WHO has prepared us for this very thing is GOD, WHO has given us THE SPIRIT as a guarantee.

[6] So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the LORD, [7] for “WE WALK” BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.”

There was a time when in my life I was attempting to “run the race” (Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 9:24) with THE LORD!  My “vision” was to always try to be “the first” to cross the finish line, no matter the situation!!  

The Apostle Paul, the author of BOTH of the aforementioned passages of Scripture, wasn’t “brain damaged” like some of us, but he was “given a NEW HEART, and a NEW SPIRIT” (Ezekiel 36:26) when GOD “arrested” (taking or detaining in custody) him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9)!  

ALMIGHTY GOD IS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING!  HE IS NOT “required” to do anything but that which HONORS and GLORIFIES HIS NAME!  HE operates in HIS DIVINE PLAN and humanity must accept that HIS PLAN is COMPLETE and PERFECT!!!  For humanity to be permitted to be USED by THE ALMIGHTY is a PRIVILEGE that is beyond comprehension.  

My feeble, brain damaged mind cannot FATHOM what PRECISELY HE has PLANNED for me!  HIS WORD gives us DIRECTION as to what HE is doing.  However, Matthew 24:36 PLAINLY states “But concerning that day and hour NO ONE KNOWS, not even the angels of heaven, nor the SON, BUT THE FATHER ONLY!”  

We are CHOSEN to WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT until THE FATHER says IT IS TIME!!!  “WE WALK” in HIS PLAN, not run so fast that we miss what HE desires to SEE from us!  “WE WALK” BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT”!!!