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A popular TV preacher said, “I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test.
Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.”
This not-so-popular preachers does not believe that, but first let’s look at how poorly the statement is phrased.
I mean, who would want what this guy says?
“If you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are."
Who wants to get to where they already are?
“God will get you to where you are”?
To be fair, maybe this guy just doesn’t think very clearly.
This not-so-popular preacher does not believe that, but first let’s look at how poorly the statement is phrased.
I mean, who would want what this guy says?
“If you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.”
Who wants to get to where they already are?
“God will get you to where you are”?
To be fair, this highly subjective opinion comes from a guy that maybe just doesn’t think very clearly.
Yet, to be honest, I think he really does believe you can sort of will your way to a lovely life.
This is the same guy who said on the Larry King Show that Jesus is not the only way to heaven.
Clearly, he believes this to be true, no matter how much he has back-peddled since.
At this point, I know you all want to know what TV preacher I’m referring to, but I’m not going to tell you.
I will say that his first name is the 29th book in the Old Testament.
Now don’t you wish you carried your Bible to church?
Let us pray.
We give you thanks, gracious God that through your foresight and providence, you call all your people, young and old alike, through baptism into new life in Christ.
By the power of your Spirit, help us to daily trust, follow, and love you more fully and faithfully; through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, forever one God.
Amen.
We give you thanks, gracious God that through our baptism you call all your people, young and old alike, to new life in Christ.
By the power of your Spirit, help us to daily know, follow, and love you more fully and faithfully; through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen.
I don’t believe that we can white-knuckle our way through life, simply persevering at doing good, or at staying on a certain path, and that by doing so, God will bless us.
This is not the big test in life.
I don’t believe that we can white-knuckle our way through life, just persevering, and that God will bless us
Indeed, we may pick the wrong path, persevering at it through our years, hoping that God will get us where we want to go.
But it isn’t about where we want to go.
It’s about where God wants us to go.
It’s about following Jesus, being his disciples.
“The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps” ().
You can plan out where you want life to take you, but it’s God who takes people of faith where he wants them to go.
He really does, though, believe you can sort of will your way to a lovely life.
This is the same guy who said on the Larry King Show that Jesus is not the only way to heaven.
Clearly, he believes this to be true, no matter how much he has back-peddled since.
Take Abram for example.
Early on, he probably thought that he’d open up a restaurant in Ur…or something like that.
The young man probably had his own dreams about life, his own plans, when along comes God and tells him, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you” ().
Whatever path Abram had determined, the Lord was about to direct his steps.
At this point, I know you all want to know what TV preacher I’m referring to, but I’m not going to tell you.
I will say that his name is the 29th book in the Old Testament.
And why was God directing Abram's steps?
It wasn’t for him at all.
Contrary to what popular books and television spout, it isn’t about us.
God worked in Abram’s life for the sake of others—even for us, these millennia later.
And he works in our lives along the same lines: for others.
Now don’t you wish you carried your Bible to church?
Let’s see how that worked in Abram’s life.
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