{"id":2810,"date":"2020-12-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:15:18","slug":"who-has-gone-to-heaven-and-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/15\/who-has-gone-to-heaven-and-come-down\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO HAS GONE TO HEAVEN AND COME DOWN?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4 minute read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWho has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind?Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?\u00a0 Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!\u201d (Proverbs 30:4 NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God has capabilities we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we question God, we\u2019re questioning His Sovereignty, His supreme power, and authority.&nbsp; Life is hard to understand.&nbsp; Things happen that make no sense.&nbsp; When they do, the common question is \u201cWhy God?\u201d&nbsp; We want to understand what we can\u2019t because we\u2019re not God.&nbsp; The way God does things and the way I do them differ significantly.&nbsp; But I\u2019m not the one who travels between heaven and earth.&nbsp; The wind and waters are not under my control.&nbsp; Only Jesus possesses infinite knowledge; ours is limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, I saw a funny cartoon.&nbsp; A fish with a briefcase is explaining to his boss why he is late for work.&nbsp; Beneath the picture is Moses parting the Red Sea.&nbsp; When God moves in our lives, explaining it to others seems impossible.&nbsp; But the more we learn to help people connect the dots of God\u2019s actions in our lives, the closer they will grow to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Make the connection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGod moments\u201d are times when something happens that is undeniably God.&nbsp; Some people call them \u201cWinks from God\u201d or a \u201cGod thing.\u201d &nbsp; If we aren\u2019t looking for God to work in our lives, we\u2019ll completely miss the moments.&nbsp; Often, we don\u2019t realize He is actively working on our behalf because we neither look for it or expect it.&nbsp; But He always is.&nbsp; Part of following Jesus is connecting the dots in our own lives to help others connect them in theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just the other morning, I was texting a friend my frustration with gaining a few pounds.&nbsp; When I picked up my Bible, a scrap of paper fell out with these words on it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe beauty of life is, we cannot undo what is done; we can see it, understand it, learn from it, and change so that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger but in wisdom, understanding, and love.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no idea where the paper originated or how it ended up in my Bible; I\u2019m sure some study I did at some point.&nbsp; Whenever I received the quote, God used it for a future \u201cGod moment\u201d in my life.&nbsp; He sent a message at the appropriate time for the current situation.&nbsp; If we don\u2019t look for Him, we won\u2019t find Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start connecting the God dots in your life.&nbsp; Look for His presence, wait expectantly for Him to move.&nbsp; As you do, you\u2019ll find, God is always up to something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What\u2019s a recent God moment in your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Micah+1-4&amp;version=NIV\">Micah 1:1-4:13 NIV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Revelation%206&amp;version=NIV\">Revelation 6:1-17 NIV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20134&amp;version=NIV\">Psalm 134:1-3 NIV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%2030%3A1-4&amp;version=NIV\">Proverbs 30:1-4 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 minute read \u201cWho has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind?Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?\u00a0 Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!\u201d (Proverbs 30:4 NIV) God&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/15\/who-has-gone-to-heaven-and-come-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO HAS GONE TO HEAVEN AND COME DOWN?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}