| Daily
Thought – October 11, 2004 |
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| LIVING THE SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
You're going
to find that there will be times when people will have
no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on
spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle
their fancy. They'll turn their backs on truth and
chase mirages. But you—keep your eye on what
you're doing; accept the hard times along with the
good; keep the Message alive...
(2 Timothy 4:3-5, the Message)
How many of us do that, accept the
hard times with the good? We all want and like the good
times, those are the times we feel “blessed” and
validated about how we are living our lives and when
the hard times come we ask, “What did I do wrong,
what did I do to deserve this”?
There are lots of people out there that are more than
happy to tell you that it is your lack of faith that
you don’t have what you want (ever heard of “name-it-and-claim-it?)
Or that you don’t have a problem-free life or
there are still others who will tell you it is because
of some sin you committed that you are now facing hard
times. The truth is neither. In the book of Job we learn
two very important things at the end: One, God does
allow things to happen, not as retribution, but that
He may be glorified. Remember when Jesus was asked who
sinned, this man or His parents, that He was now crippled?
Jesus’ answer was that it was neither. He was
allowed to be this way so God could be glorified and
Jesus healed him. Two, the concept, idea, or teaching
that if you are good and do what God wants you to do
you will be blessed and if you don’t you will
be cursed is a lie. If you don’t believe me, go
read Job 42:7 — "After the LORD had said these
things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'I am
angry with you and your two friends, because you have
not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has'." That
idea was the teaching of Job’s "friends" and
God said they were WRONG!
We have bad times because we live in a fallen world,
a world at war, and if we are truly engaged in what
we are to be doing we will be opposed. We have an enemy
who stops at nothing to get us to lay down our arms.
Keep to good simple teaching; understand your role in
this story, this adventure. Understand that is full
of danger and joy. Understand that in the end all will
be made right, and keep the simple massage alive that
God loves us, rescued us, and desires an intimate loving
personal relationship with us.
Live it with Passion
Pete Reinbold
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