God Knows Best

1 Samuel 3:18 "So Samuel told Eli everything; he didn't hold anything back. 'It is the Lord's will,' Eli replied. 'Let him do what he thinks best.'"

 

Last night I was watching Evan Almighty with my family and the main focus of the movie is that God is using Evan as a modern day Noah to build an arch and rescue people from a soon to come flood. There is a part in the movie where Evan embraces this call from God and in doing so his wife decideds to leave with her three sons. Evan is standing in the middle of the driveway as they pull out, looks up to the heavens and says "I know you do this because you love me." Right then a sprinkler shoots in his face and he says, "Can you love me a little less?" Though this movie is a comical fiction film, truth is, God does have a plan and it's not always the way we think it is going to be.

 

God came to Samuel and told him that the time is coming where judgment on Eli and his family was going to take place. Eli's sons were doing evil things and even though Eli knew about it he didn't discipline them, but God was disciplining the whole family.  Eli's response to what Samuel told him of what the Lord was going to do was let him do what he thinks best.

 

The next time you find yourself in a hard situation in doing the work of God, just remember that the Lord does have a perfect will. Allow God to do what he thinks is best.  God's love is everlasting and yes, with his love does come discipline, but only as a reaction to our actions.  Let us live lives pleasing to the Lord and accept the good and the bad.  When you stay faithful to the Lord and do what you know is right, even though hard times will come, utimately His Will, will be done!

 

Jesus himself prayed not my will, but your will be done.  And we all know the course that Jesus took.  A road of momentary death and suffering in order to bring forth an eternity of life and peace. 

Let him do what he thinks best!