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God not only wants to change your life, he wants to change your day. That’s what women’s Bible teacher Beth Moore said, and I like it a lot. I’m tired of plans to change my life. I’m about ready to have my day changed instead. I may even give up on that and just change my present moment. Excuse me a minute….
One day I tried to count all the times in Francis Schaeffer’s book True Spirituality where he talked about changing your day. It’s only 180 pages but it became almost impossible because he said it in so many ways. He bent over backwards. He exhausted English vocabulary. It was his only point in the book, really: Trust God this minute on the clock. Believe God’s many promises for your life now. Claim the present power of the blood of Jesus for your life immediately.
“When we say we live in a personal universe and God the Father is our Father, to the extent that we have less than a trusting attitude we are denying what we say we believe. We say that as Christians we have by choice taken the place of creatures before the Creator, but as we show a lack of trust we are exhibiting that at that moment, in practice, we have not really so chosen.” (Italics his)
I have to do it all the time: I rebuke unbelief and make a conscious choice to say with Jesus, “I will put my trust in him” (Hebrews
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Soul searching
The world sees moral failings of prominent Christians and rightly condemns them as hypocrites. But the greater hypocrisy is this: We claim to trust God while continuing to worry.
As a Sunday School teacher once put it, “When we worry, we are in effect saying that either God doesn’t know about our situation, or that He knows but doesn’t care. Neither of those are ever true.”
Stubob & Karen O - I disagree somewhat.
I don’t worry about God, or whether He is up to any task.
I do worry about me, and whether I am up to God’s tasks for me.
Well, KRM, you’ve got a point. But even there, we could say that you have no need to worry, because God will equip you to do what He calls you to do.
I was going to say that maybe worrying about our willingness has a point to it, but then I thought of Philippians 2:13, which has both the doing & the willing covered…
“…for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
But I do know what you mean. I can worry about what you mentioned, or worry about how willing a loved one will be in following Christ, particularly my children (one grown, one almost grown).