Just fix it

Abraham looked for an unseen city in the heavens, yet each day he picked up his tent and cooking pots and walked on.  He kept looking for the eternal and the invisible but what he saw every day was the temporal and the visible.  We live our lives a lot like that too. The fight of faith is to believe in that which is promised but not yet seen. Yet God has a purpose in the world. In the book of Job, God said we can know who He is, from the things he has made.   “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will explain to you. Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this” (Job 12:7-9)

 Solomon the wise, said in Ecclesiastes “I have seen” many times as he sought to explain how he arrived at his philosophy of life.  There are spiritual things and natural things going on in our lives and God expects us to deal with both and learn from both. Much of Proverbs, Song of Songs and Ecclesiastics are natural wisdom because some problems need practical answers.  If your toaster is broken, fasting isn’t going to fix it.  If your wife hasn’t seen you all week, more praying in tongues won’t fix it. Neither can we fight spiritual enemies with carnal weapons. If you are oppressed, watching another comedy on TV, won’t deliver you. Coffee at the mall can’t fix what only time with the King can.

Friend, we don’t ask God to do what He has given to us us to do and by seeking Him that is above, we can still receive heavenly solutions to our natural problems.