Ask for Permission, Instead of Forgiveness

It is much easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. I first heard this
just right after sharing ‘Let Your Choice Be God’s Choice,’ when a
person
replied “Sometimes we think it is easier
to ask forgiveness that it is to ask permission.”
Then
I heard it again just a few days later
when someone posted it as a facebook status.
And if that wasn’t enough for me, I heard it a third time, while I
was
watching a TV show, Flash Forward, and the team of agents wanted to go
into CIA
territory to investigate something, and they were debating it and
someone said,
“It is much easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.”

Now I don’t know who coined the phrase. I don’t know how long it’s been around or anything else, but I do know that when God
wants to
make a statement and He really wants us to get something, He confirms
it, and He
does that by putting it in the mouth of two or three witnesses, time and
time
again.

Sometimes we know what we should do, and I venture to say, OFTEN times we know what we should
NOT do, but because we don’t want anyone, especially God, to tell us so,
we
operate as if it is much better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for
permission. I believe God wants so much
for us to believe Him and to take Him at His Word, that He really does
want the
best for us. That He really really loves
us and wants us to have life and that more abundantly. But
because we take this in our own hands we
miss what God wants to give us. Because
we make decisions to do some things based on our “immature” belief of
what we
think will happen, we miss the greater thing that God has for us. God sees everything. He has
determined our future from the
beginning.

God said this to me, and he who has an ear, needs to hear this, “You want so much to do some
things. You want some things and because
somehow you believe that I do not want you to have what you want or do
what you
want to do, you go ahead and do what you want to get them. You go ahead and do the thing that you want to
do. Foolishly ready and willing,
supposedly, to suffer the consequences later.

You have a relationship with Me. You believe you know Me. And because You know that I am
a forgiving God, you know that I am a loving God and you truly believe
that I
will never do anything that will cause you any pain, you plunge ahead
and do
what you want to do, fully aware that there may be consequences, but not
fearing
them because of Who you believe Me to be.

But what you are failing to realize is this, Who you think that I Am or Who you know Me to
be, I AM not at all. You really don’t
know Me as you should. Because if you
did, if you knew Me to be Who I AM, God, your God, your Lord, you will
not do
what you wanted to do, but what you believed that I thought was best for

you. And you would know that by asking
Me. By asking of My permission instead
of seeking My forgiveness.

And what this boils down to is trust,” saith the Lord. “If You really trusted Me, you would know without a doubt that I
want
what is best for you. That I only want
what is best for you. And My permission
would be granted to you freely if what you want falls in line with what I
want
for you.”

God said that we convince ourselves that we can deal with the consequences. That we can face them, no matter what they will be. After all, God loves us.
How much would He make us suffer? And as
Minister Jeff says, we believe we can
1 John 1 and 9 everything and God will forgive us and we can move on.

Yes, God is a loving God. Yes, God is a forgiving God. But God is also a just God. He
is also a sovereign God and a jealous
God. And He will not allow us to put
anything before Him. It’s in His
Word. Thou shalt not have any god before
Me. And a god is considered anything
that we worship, even our own ideas.

What we have to understand is that everything we do has a consequence, good and bad. And if it against God’s will for our life and we knowingly do it anyway, He has got to correct us. And
correction is often painful.

God said that He had to correct Moses when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it and
yelled at the children of Israel. Moses
put his will above God’s when he allowed himself to get angry. He did not humble himself in the sight of the
people and show forth God’s greatness.
In some way, Moses was saying through his action, it was much
easier to
ask for God’s forgiveness than to ask for God’s permission. Which so many of us do, when we make up our
minds, when we make conscious decisions to do what we want first, and
suffer the
consequences later.

God said, that what we also fail to realize is this, that thing we wanted so much to have, He
would have given us much better than that.
If only we had sought Him first and asked His permission instead
of HIs
forgiveness. He
said, “When my Son was in
the garden,
it was not easy to do what He was about to do, and He could have just as
easily
turned away from doing it, but He didn’t.
What did He do? He asked my
permission, ‘Father if it be thy will, take this cup away from Me, but
nevertheless, Your will be done.’ He
knew Me. He knew that what I have asked
of Him to do had a purpose and He trusted that I had nothing but the
best
planned for Him. And He received the
best, the greater gift, for now He is sitting at My right hand, as the
King of
kings and the Lord of lords. “

God loves you so very much. He only wants what is best for you. Dare to believe Him and trust
Him so you want have to ask for forgiveness.

God is real.

Be blessed.

A servant of the Lord,

Sis. E


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