Whatcha Gonna Do?

Joh 6:5  Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and saw a great crowd come to Him. He said to 
Philip, Where shall we buy loaves so that these may eat?
Isa 55:8  For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah.
Isa 55:9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your 
ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
	Ok, Ok, real quick- You're in need of a friend and there is absolutely no one 
around. Watcha gonna do? You just ran out of your guest's beverage of choice. Whatcha 
gonna do? You just found out your good friend has died and is already 6 feet under. 
Whatcha gonna do? It is totally dark wherever you look and you would like to throw a 
little light on the subject. Whatcha gonna do? A whole bunch of friends have followed 
you way out in the country where there are no restaurants or grocery stores. They're all 
starving. Whatcha gonna do?
	Of course, this could go on and on with no end to the examples of what we might 
do as opposed to what God would do. While we might come up with a creative way to 
use the means and resources at hand to resolve an issue, it seems like God goes way 
beyond this. He takes creativity to its ultimate level and actually forms or creates 
something from where all the rest of us thought there was nothing. He's never had to rely 
on E-harmony.com for relationships, Home Depot for materials, UPS to deliver enough 
goods or materials, or medical means to restore or resurrect. When He thinks of what 
He's gonna do, His thoughts immediately flow on a higher level, one that brings much 
more effective results. 
	We will make it through this life, and by the help of God we'll be able to be like 
McGyver, taking whatever comes our way and using available resources to be successful. 
There is a way of thinking, however, that is of a heavenly and Godly nature that abiding 
in Jesus' presence will influence. Even though we will always be human, there is 
something of a Godly, creative nature that has begun in us when our spirits are reborn 
into Christ. As this new spirit is allowed to grow up, actually taking the form of Christ, 
there is a new way of thinking and talking that can be acquired. Peter, at the gate 
Beautiful, was able to think at this higher level by tapping into the creative substance 
within and giving the crippled man more than a walking stick or even a nice electric 
scooter. It was the security he had found in His relationship with Jesus that allowed His 
mind to flow in a truly creative direction before any other consideration. He didn't have 
to try and remember or conjure up some method or formula that would hopefully work as 
he'd seen it work somewhere else. As the end would be creative, so would the procedure 
of that creativity be. Jesus didn't develop a step-by-step procedure that could be emulated 
by standing on the right foot, saying the right words, or holding your tongue just right. As 
His results were creative, so were the applications that administered the transformations. 
Peter had learned from Jesus that the real creative power of God is something that flows 
from the Holy Spirit within, requiring only an obedient vessel, never a rehearsed 
incantation. 
	We were introduced to something completely divergent from anything our earthly 
experience could have prepared us for whenever we took the ride to the kingdom of 
Light. To have even received Christ actually required a thought on a level that we could 
never have discovered on our own. To continue growing in this new Kingdom, though, 
requires the growth of thought on that level, where the seeming lack of possibility only 
gives way to the creation of something quite magnificent from apparently nothing at all. 
The growth doesn't take place in reverse order, where we try to make sense out of every 
Spirit generated event, discounting anything that doesn't fit into our preconceived 
formula. His ways are higher, and His thoughts are higher. They can never fit into 
anything we can box up. To abide in Christ, though, and to let His words abide in our 
hearts is to nurture the higher thoughts and ways of heaven. It is possible for His creative 
thoughts to precede our old natural problem solving thought patterns. 
	As we've been born into Christ, we can also begin to walk in Him. And, living 
and moving in Him will include a change of thought- in fact, a radical change of thought. 
When it is asked of us what we might do about a situation, (sort of like what Jesus asked 
in John 6:5) our initial thought can be one of creative possibilities and heavenly solutions. 
In this our true faith can be made active and evident. To truly know Him will include the 
acceptance of creative considerations- "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of 
things not seen." Heb. 11:1.  We can actually leave the confines of worldly limited 
thinking for the unlimited and endless possibilities of heaven's thoughts. 


8/29/06