Last night I overheard a friend of mine talking to his parents about a major life changing experience that the Lord is leading him through.....My friend was speaking with excitement and confidence in the Lord, and of the Lord's faithfulness to provide his needs.......His parents, who claim to know the Lord seemed to find something negative to say about everything that he mentioned.......They seemed to take their lack of trust in God and smear it all over my friend's excitement. It made me so sad for him, down right heart broken to be honest because they do this to him often.........
His parents claim to know the Lord and claim to walk by faith.....Everytime you ask them a question about anything their response is "just pray about it" or "trust God" but when it comes time for the rubber to meet the road and for someone to take a step of faith off of the bank into the Jordan, these supposedly Christian parents smack the very God of all creation in the face with their lack of trust..and abondoned their nice little cute baptisty sayings... I am sorry that just slipped out!!!
Quite honestly I am so SICK of the very people who claim to trust God for salvation not trusting Him for anything else......HELLLOOOOOOO!!!! If we can trust God to take the sins of our entire lives and cast them into the sea of forgetfulness, as far is from the east is to the west, and make us in right relationship with Him, how dare we not trust Him for everything else!!......what a slap in the face it is to say that He can not provide something as meaningless as an earthly need......
Our GREATEST need as humans is salvation....forgiveness of sin and right relationship with God....Not where to park your car while you are on a mission trip, not something as small as 139 dollar school loan bill, not your comfort or wants..........
He has already made a way for our greatest need, how much more able is He to truly meet our earthly needs......To say or worry that he won't met the others is such a slap in the face to Him....
I dont understand how we can trust Him for something so HUGE as salvation and then worry about how he will meet our finances, food needs, shelter....etc. I mean seriously the very word that promises salvation also says that God also owns the cattle on a 1000 hills and that He will meet what.....some of my needs...most of my needs....NO>>>>> ALL of my needs!!!!!!!!! I was reminded of this at 1:30 in the morning Monday night when I was not able to sleep due to my jet lag.........God's word says this about it!!!
"Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?" Matthew 6:26
I know we all go through times of doubt and worry, don't misunderstand me here.......I am not trying to judge and throw stones at anyone....I am sure there is at least one person out there that thinks that.....I am just trying to get it into mine and everyone's head that God is so HUGE and so BIG that he meets ALL of our needs....If we choose to go around the world to live...If we choose to serve at a local church and quite honestly if we choose to be a bum.....God is in the need meeting business......If He wasn't He never would have met our first and greatest need.....JESUS on the cross!
I feel the need for an invitation.........could someone sing Just As I Am????? Hope you enjoyed my sermon....Have a great Tuesday!!!!
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