More About Signs & Are You Completing the Race?

Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

Speaking to my mom last night about signs and how my best friend wanted me to blog about them and when I did she didn’t like the blog too much, I told my mom that I’m not a big signs person. She asked why since God gives us signs everyday. I’m not doing another blog about signs, I just don’t study them, even after I did my blog on signs and the next day my friend read me something she found and was like “Billie Jean, that’s your sign!” I chuckled and laughed at her believing God was giving me another sign. I try to be real about life and signs to me just seem to be a way for us to tell God “I believe in what you’ve said but you really should ‘show’ me more.” Kind of like a movie I watched back in 1996 where a catch phrase of the movie was, “Show me the money!”. I don’t know why I feel this way about signs but yes I acknowledge that God gives us signs. I must like to live in a predictable world of safety in the usual always happens.

I am amazed by His wonderful wonders He has done. Like in Psalm 17:7 it is stated that “ Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.” And in Job 42:3, Job speaks of things too wonderful for him to know. “You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.”

I do not wish to test the mind of my God or to ‘hang the fleece out’ for Him to prove anything to me. I’m very mindful that God doesn’t play games with any of us. When He says He will do something, even in our doubt, I truly believe He will do it and it will be bigger than we could ever imagine. I just want Him to find me being faithful and true until He brings about the fulfillment of every single promise He has given me for my life.

In a book by Max Lucado, Come Thirsty he writes about what fulfills our souls and what doesn’t. “Take special concern with the bottle labeled ‘religion’. Jesus did. Note the setting in which he speaks. He isn’t talking to prostitutes or troublemakers, penitentiary inmates or reform-school students. No, he addresses churchgoers at a religious convention. This day is an ecclesiastical highlight; like the Vatican on Easter Sunday. You half expect the pope to appear in the next verse. Religious symbols are laid out like a yard sale: the temple, the altar, trumpets, and robes. He could have pointed to any item as a source of drink. But he doesn’t. There are mere symbols.
He points to himself, the one to whom the symbols point and in whom they are fulfilled. Religion pacifies, but never satisfies. Church activities might hide a thirst, but only Christ quenches it. Drink him.
And drink often. Jesus employs a verb that suggests repeated swallows. Literally, “Let him come to me and drink and keep drinking.” One bottle won’t satisfy your thirst. Regular sips satisfy thirsty throats. Ceaseless communion satisfies thirsty souls.”

If signs are what you long for from God, you should examine how you truly communicate with the heavenly Father. My soul longs, even pants to be able to have a conversation with my God. Once you have regular, meaningful conversations with God then you are hooked into wanting more of that kind of communion with Him.

So I read someone’s blogspot that challenged us to keep up the pace and don’t quit before the end of the race is over. That if we are number 1 for most of the race but go home with just one lap of the race left, we win nothing! I want to be found winning the race the Lord has set before me to run and to keep running it until the day of His return or my homecoming whichever comes first. It is easy to get discouraged and want to just quit whatever it is God has called us out to do but what would’ve happened to us if Jesus decided to come up off that cross before He died and went to hell for us for 3 days? We shouldn’t choose to give up our race so easily either.