God is Up to Something

 

By Andrea Merrell

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you 

will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. 

Philippians 1:6 NKJV

Crash! The sound reverberated through the house as the young mother turned to her husband. “What in the world is that child up to now?”

“Beats me,” her husband replied, “but you can be sure it’s nothing good.”

If you’re a parent, you can probably relate. We want our kids to be good. To do good. To be obedient. To follow instructions and stay out of trouble. Sadly, that learning curve is typically very long and very tedious.

But we can’t blame it all on the kids. As adults, we face the same temptations to do things that are not always so good. Maybe God shakes His head and says, “What in the world is my child up to now?”

The great news for us is that no matter what we’re “up to,” God is always up to something—something good. In the Bible study “Experiencing God,” Henry Blackaby tells us that God is always at work in, around, and through us. He never stops. Even when we can’t see the results, we can trust that He hears our prayers, sees our needs, and sets the answers in motion. At times the answer comes quickly. At other times we have to wait, but God has promised to finish the work He has already begun in us.

God is up to something good, and we should be about our Father's business. 

What are you up to?

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