• Jeremiah 4:18
  Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”
  Ezekiel 24:14
  I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.”

Once again doing a scripture search for the phrase “have it your way” we find the results that tell us that God is not “The Burger King”.

We have free will, we can have it our way. What is on the menu?

Burger King changes its menu to satisfy its customers. That franchise feeds off the pride of  choice. 

The King of Glory does not change His menu. It does not cater to the whims of man. He has set the table before us and we will eat or we shall go hungry.

Psalm 34:10 English Standard Version (ESV) The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

What is on the Lord’s table is all good. Is it to our liking? Is it what we want?

Here is a random thought, when at the Lord’s table, what do you put on your plate? Do we think that we actually get to pick and choose what we partake of at the Lord’s table or is this a formal dinner where servants place those items before us according to the Feast Master’s planning?

These are things we rarely think about. We go about our day making plans for our lives as if we are making all the choices. Then suddenly something goes wrong. This is not according to plan, this isn’t what we had envisioned for ourselves.

What got in our way varies greatly. It could be as simple as a phone app that isn’t working properly or test results from our doctor that brings bad news. Whatever it is, we have to deal with the frustration of not getting things our own way.

Has it reached our heart as Jeremiah says or have we considered Isaiah’s words in how we shall be judged?

Sound judgment is found by serving the right King.

• Job 29:14
  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
  
• Isaiah 61:10
  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

These are the only two passages found in a search using the words robe and righteous.

They are a stark contrast between our “putting on” and God clothing us.

As a child I was insecure and I “put on” airs of intellect and ego to mask who I was inside.

My high school yearbook had a line that spoke well to it. “All those summer girls” There were lots of them because as soon as they saw me for what I was under the mask, they were gone. That was me as Job.

Once God clothed me with robes of salvation I became a new creation in Christ. It has taken me many years to discover that the robes of righteousness were never mine and never will be. They cover me, sure, but they do not belong to me.

The bride and the bridegroom adorn themselves with their wedding attire only once and then put them away so as to never soil those precious garments. They are more ceremonial than decorative.

Philippians 3:9 English Standard Version (ESV) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith

If you get to know me now you will find a man who loves imperfectly because I am not yet perfected. I do the best I can and to be honest with you there is still a little insecure boy hiding inside me clinging to robes that do not belong to me.

I am secure in God’s love for me but insecure in my ability to live up to the name of Christ.

In my weakness He is strong.