Recently the Lord has been disarming me with His love and His wisdom in very spectacular and supernatural ways.
The most recent incident occurred a week ago.
I met a friend and shared very intimate challenges I was going through in my life. I poured out my heart and shared my fears and feelings of loneliness. A day later as I was looking at my FB account I saw that my friend had posted an old music video by Michael W Smith called 'I will be Here'. As I listened to it, it was as if the song was a tailor made response to what I had shared the previous night. I thought 'how sweet, my friend's actually posted the song in response to my sharing'. But when I checked the time stamp, I realized that the posting was made 3 hours before I met my friend the previous day.
The things is, my friend had told me that God had spoken and shared with my friend that God had wanted me to personally share my heart with my friend about what I was going through prior to our meeting. Now God had actually addressed my needs through my friend before I had even opened my mouth to share what I was going through. When I told my friend what had happened, we both kept quiet, speechless at what the Lord had done in our midst.
Another set of supernatural events took place about 3 weeks ago. I walked to the common table in my office and picked up the newspaper and brought it back to my desk. As I sat down I reached out and picked-up my iPod Touch to turn it off. The time on the device was 3:33. I felt an impression on my heart -- Jeremiah 33:3. I paused and felt encouraged. God knew what I was going through. Then as I picked-up the newspaper I had brought with me and unfolded the page, I noticed that at the bottom of the page was a half page ad with the numbers 333,000 printed large on it. I felt goosebumps. I felt the Lord was telling me to read Jeremiah 33:3. Then on the way home later that evening, as I was pondering and meditating on what had happened, and how supernatural the '333' occurrences had seemed to be, I noticed a large double decker bus drive by. Guess what the bus number was? Yup, it was 333! Fast forward to the next day, I'm sitting down to lunch before going to church for choir practice and I decide to call my friend Kevin and tell him what I had experienced with '333'. I reached my hand into my bag and pulled out my phone. As I stared down at my phone, I noticed the time. It was 3:33! I feel at this juncture to say this. I feel I would be really dense not to realize that God was telling me to read Jeremiah 33:3, and that He wanted to show me something from that verse.
Now I shared all that to share this.
The understanding I got from Him after 2 weeks of waiting on Him was this. Man is finite. We are trapped in time and space. We move through time in a linear fashion. Once we pass a moment in time in our lives, we can never go back. Even if you wanted to go back in time a second, you can't!
And man doesn't do too well regarding His ability to see into the future either. Don't talk about seeing a day into the future, we can't even predict an hour into the future. What about our present? do we know everything about our present? I realize that we don't even know what's happening in the next room! And think about this. Do You know how many hairs there are on your head? Man is finite and limited! But God isn't.
In the original Hebrew, Jeremiah 33: 3 actually says that God will unlock hidden things to us, hidden things that are likened to things locked up in a safe or stronghouse. One translation says unsearchable things. Like I mentioned earlier, there are many things in our lives that are unsearchable. We do not know what's going to happen in our future -- not even in the next hour. We don't know about how our life fits into the 'big scheme of things' even at this present moment. But God does. He lives outside of time. He is already in our tomorrows. And as He demonstrated to me, before I even uttered a word out of my mouth, He knew what I was going to say. The bible says that God knew us even when we were knit in our mother's womb. He knows our future better than we know our present and our past.
So listen to the invitation today to throw yourself into the hands of the One who knows all things.
'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' Jer 33:3 NIV
