The church isn't a social club where one compares success stories of church work. Neither is it a place where one brandishes his or her endowed gifts for God as trophies to be admired. Yes, the church is surely social as well as a display case for God's accomplishments. But more, the church is the testimonial of a people not willing to give up on God when under fire.
Oh how I love to learn and share the God-stories. The more we tell of them it seems the more of them He gives us for yet additional testimonies. Keep it going.
It must occur to us at some level of Christian commitment that God's true kingdom is riddled with crosses of weakness, insecurity, inadequacy, imprisonment, confusion, and even death. These aren't rare innuendo; they are reality for the believer.
If you are in this for the long haul, surely you realize disappointment and disturbance reign. From Moses' burning bush to Joseph's pit to Gideon's army reduction to Jesus on trial to the early church scattering....the kingdom is all about things not going right and God's ultimate delivering of absolute and definable victory.
Try to refuse a life of seeing that all goes well. It will; but only after the stage is clearly set so disparagingly that if God doesn't come through....come through doesn't come.
2 comments:
LOVE This!! You are so right on!!
My insecurity, inadequacy, weakness and failures exalt Him.
Jay
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