Ants and magnifying glasses

Did you ever watch Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey?  Remember that scene where Carrey's character 'Bruce' makes this statement, "God is a mean kid sitting on an anthill with a magnifying glass, and I'm the ant.  He could fix my life in five minutes if He wanted to, but He'd rather burn off my feelers and watch me squirm."

I'm starting to realize more and more that people really do see Yahweh this way.  It's really weird to think about it since I've grown up in a Christian home, had Christian friends, and haven't had such a bad life..  From the outside, that is.  I have to point out, though, that my life hasn't always been what it is now.  I used to struggle heavily with lust and had several bouts with internet pornography - which I believe is a plague to Christian men of honor and commitment everywhere.  Pornography's a sickness to the Biblical statute of what God's idea is for a family.  I'll blog about that later.  But before I'm off the subject, I do have to say that the reason families fall apart is because of a lack of communication.  Men don't want to fess up to their wives because they're prideful.  Women don't want to fess up to their husbands because they're dealing with why their husbands don't look at them the way they look at women on the computer screens.  Children are being tempted earlier and earlier..  What are we going to do?  Stop being quiet, perhaps?  People of honor and commitment (which is a subject I'm preaching about tomorrow night.   Thursday Night @ The Regeneration. 7:14) learn how to be transparent.  That's the only way we overcome obstacles, struggles, and sin, is through transparency with our spouses, families, and friends.  We've got to have more accountability in our lives.  Ha!  This is obviously something I'm passionate about.  However, for the time being, I digress.

My life was subdued by internet pornography.  I was bound in chains to lust.  There was no victory in my life.  There was no sense of purpose, nor did I feel like I had any rhyme or reason to my walk with God.  Keep in mind, being raised in a Christian home, I knew what prayer was.  I had seen Jesus work miracle after miracle through effectual, fervent prayers of the saints.  But when I prayed, "why doesn't God hear me?" I would ask.  "I hate being this way," I would say.  "I hate dealing with this.  I want to be delivered."  I would pray day after day, slip-up after slip-up.  Then one day, God heard me.

I would like to say that though I'm still tempted, God is faithful and makes a way out (1 Cor. 10:13).  I don't struggle anymore.  I just learn how to submit to God and let the devil leave me (James 4:7-8).  At the very name of Jesus, whether it's a whisper or a shout, every demon still has to flee.  Everything surrenders to His name because His name is high above every other name named (Phil. 2:9-10).

So, with this title, Ants and magnifying glasses, I would like to testify to God's goodness.

For He is good and His mercy endures forever. - Psalm 107:1.  He's incapable of being anything else other than good.  All that He is and does is for humanity's benefit.  All He knows how to do is be good.  All He wants for us is healing, restoration, and hope.  Even in our chastisement, it's still for our good (Prov. 3:11; Heb. 12:7-8).  On the other hand, it's Satan who is incapable of being anything else other than evil.  All that he is and does is for humanity's demise.  All he knows how to do is be evil.  All he wants for us is to be stolen from, have destroyed life, and ultimately to kill us (John 8:44; John 10:10; Acts 10:38; Hebrews 2:14; John 3:8).

The amazing thing about God is that He is in the business of causing us to triumph and be victorious.  However, our God turned the curse into a blessing. - Nehemiah 13:2.  It's what He does.  But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good.. - Genesis 50:20.  Again, it's what He does.

I have to tell you that we aren't ants and there is actually no need for a magnifying glass, though it is US who use them.  We, in our fleshly nature, or Satan helps us use a magnifying glass to see how big our situation, circumstance, or scenario can look compared to God.  Truly, there's none who compares to Him though.  See, there is no opposite to God because there is no equal.  He is above all things and in all things, He is completely good all the time.

We've got to understand that His intentions for our lives are the best!