Lord, I want to be responsible to use the gifts You have Given me and lay aside without and fruitless activities.

by Neil Anderson August 20   HOW GOD WORKS   Deuteronomy 8: 6   You Shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him   I believe in miracles, and I accept as fact every one Recorded in the Bible. That I believe our entire Christian experience is a miracle. It simply can not be Explained by Natural means. And God's power is seen in other miraculous ways today, but I must always prove Himself by stepping outside His created order? If God does not guide us Primarily through His Word (Which never changes) and take into account the fixed order of the universe, how can we ever have any stability? How can we make any plans if God does not reveal His ways and then stay consistent with them?   God is not capricious in His dealings with man. Clearly He has established His ways and He is faithful to them. I believe God has revealed His ways and we are to walk in them. The question is, how does God work through human Responsibility and naturally the order of the universe to bring acerca His will? Somehow He works through a less-than-perfect church, orchestrating human affairs in Such a way as to guarantee the outcome of the ages. What really impresses me is His timing, not His miraculous interventions.   Notice how Jesus Responded to Those Who insisted on a sign: "An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign, and no sign yet Shall be Given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet" (Matthew 12:39).Satan wanted to sign too. He said, "If You are the Son of God throw Yourself down" (Matthew 4: 6). Respond to this Jesus, "Do not put the Lord your God to the test" (verse 7 NIV). That Jesus was the sign saying we need is the Word of God, and we are to use the Word to guard against Satan's temptations to force the Lord to prove Himself.   I think it is better to prove ourselves to God rather than demand I prove Himself to us. We are the ones being tested, not God. "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, Accurately handling the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15).