Trust God and Get Going: Providence in Genesis

Imagine a painter who is is tasked with painting this beautiful mural, you know, may maybe it's like a a great cathedral or something and he's invited to to paint this mural, but he invites you, someone who doesn't know anything about art, to join him. And as he's painting, the the day in and day out, as the master goes around and paint, he tells you a little bit about what it's like to paint, he tells you about color composition, how to, you know, paint shadows and different shapes and things like that. And you're listening the whole time just happy to be in his company. But then imagine one day, he he pulls out a paintbrush and he gives it to you and he says, now I want you to paint. [01:03:57] (37 seconds)  #PaintWithTheMaster

But God, again, is more concerned with shaping you into the right kind of person he wants you to be than giving you all the right answers. And so sometimes as we do this thing called the Christian life, we make choices and we make them wrong, but God is using those choices regardless of whether they're right or wrong in the moment to shape you. Sometimes it means, again, when our plans don't work out, what that means is we need to be willing to redirect our path, to align our path with the Lord's. And we're not willing to do that, we're just gonna get further and further away from him. So be willing to to redirect your path because at the end of the day, it's about his will being done, not yours. [01:03:13] (37 seconds)  #GodShapesCharacter

God always always accomplishes his plan. Against all odds, often against the the stupid decisions that people make in Genesis and even today, God still accomplishes his plan. And this is what's often referred to as the providence of God. Maybe some of you have heard that word before. It's the providence of God. The providence of God is is is God's almighty power that sustains and governs the universe. You know, whether it's rain or drought, riches or poverty, health or sickness, it all falls under God's pro providence. But here's what this means practically. Because we again, we can think about these big ideas and they're important to think about, but here's what this means practically. [00:48:46] (41 seconds)  #ProvidencePrevails

See, you are not always gonna get it right, and that is okay. That is okay. You are not God. You are going to make mistakes. You're gonna make poor decisions. Abraham, Sarah, Peter, Mary, if you look in the New Testament, all these people, everybody you read about in in the Bible made mistakes. They didn't get right all the time. But again, God's promise reminds us that in the end, God gets what he wants. And at times that may mean that your efforts fail, or that might mean the business that you start fails, it doesn't work out. Might it might look like some of the plans that you had laid out don't don't exactly come to fruition, at least in all the ways that you imagined. [01:02:35] (38 seconds)  #GraceForMistakes