What if

What if ____________? 

Aren't there a million things you have put in that blank?  The what-ifs haunt us sometimes don't they?  Even at my age, I can get caught up in them, rolling a self produced movie thru my head playing out the scenarios.  It is rarely productive.  In fact, never productive except to learn from the mistakes I have made. 

But God did this:  __________________.

Because of this:    _______________,      this happened:________________.

Filling in those kind of blanks might be productive. 

I like looking for the Fingerprints of God on the past.  Seeing the evidence of where He has been, how He has acted, and where He has led reminds me in the present moment that He is in fact STILL God.  He was able then, and He is able now.  Even though I don't know what it looks like yet, His Hand is present. 

I have watched Morgan battle the what if scenarios on many occasions.  We have an enemy who purposes "...to steal and kill and destroy..."(John 10:10 NASB)  That devil "prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. " (1 Peter 5:8 NASB)

But He only prowls LIKE a lion.  He is NOT a lion.

"...the devil...was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44 NASB)

Our enemy has no honorable rules of engagement in this battle we are in.  There is no sacred ground, he will attack absolutely any way he has opportunity, as long as God allows it. (...which is why we pray for God's protection against the evil one.)

Sometimes God does allow.  That is a hard truth, but He has promised that there is ALWAYS help. 

"No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it." (1 Corinthians 10:13 NASB) 

What if Eve had talked to Adam before making that decision to pick that fruit?

What if Adam had refused to participate?

What if Noah had quit before he got the ark finished?  Gave in to peer pressure and ridicule?

What if Job had cursed God and died, like his wife suggested? 


Poor Job.  I want to hug his neck when I get to heaven.  He had no idea the spiritual battle he was in.  He didn't know his story would be read down thru the ages.  He didn't know he would help me work thru so many difficulties over and over again.  He didn't know his name and life's story would be written in the pages of holy scripture. 




What might God be doing in our struggle?  What might God accomplish thru our own story, things that we may never even know about in our lifetime?

What if Jett hadn't been hurt?  We will never know that. 

What if God had not intervened?  We will never know that either. 

Hallelujah