God's Holiness Limits His Choices

Okay, it has been quite a week, and it's only Wednesday. I just got in from New York City and that's always a perspective-broadening experience. I guess if you live in NYC you take it for granted. For the rest of us, I believe New York City represents a paradigm of significantly different proportions.

Through all the busy-ness, traffic and noise of Manhattan, God was talking to me quite a bit this week. It seems He wanted me to understand something about His holiness. What I came to understand was an entirely new concept that maybe I should have known, but hadn't actually ever thought about before.

God showed me is that His holiness limits His choices in a situation. While God has the exclusive right to change or intervene in my circumstances, His holiness dictactes what He can do and when. Basically He can only intervene at the exact time and in the exact way that would bring about the absolute best outcomes. Usually I don't see that way or that time.

So I will most often see a situation and its timing from a human perspective. I may implore God in the most persuasive prayers I know how to pray --- asking Him to intervene and do whatever I believe is the right thing at the right time. (And believe me, I have done this!) But God will never, ever be able to do anything that I ask, unless I just happen to ask for the God-response and timing that would bring about the best outcome(s), throughout all of time.