Don’t Lie About My God

Still St. Patrick’s Day and all, but I am still pretty ticked off about some comments made by people on “so-called” Christian TV about the devastation in Japan. Listen folks, God isn’t the one sending hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other devastation to try to teach anyone a lesson. He doesn’t work like that, and you’d know that if you’d pick up your Bible some time. Romans 8:19-22 says it like this:

For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

In other words, the earth is falling apart while we are all waiting for the sons of God to be matured and manifested. Of course, if the sons of God are busy telling lies about our Father and causing the world to hate Him instead of love Him, then we’re going to keep on having the same kind of destruction we’ve seen. If the sons of God are going to bicker and backbite, bring about strife and confusion, then the world will not know Him. Try reading John 17, or any of the epistles of John and say that God would send an earthquake to wipe out people. That’s ridiculous.

So, in keeping with my “happy” St. Patrick’s Day theme… here are two limericks I have written in response to the false accusations about God…

 

There once was a silly old man

Who said God had it in for Japan

How can you say such a thing

About my God and King

When destruction is not part of HIS plan

 

 

There was an old preacher named Pat

Who claimed God wants Japan to be flat

That doesn’t show love

From my God up above

Foolish man, you’re not right about that!

 

Seeking Time Survival Guide Tip #7: It ain’t over ’til it’s over!

Seeking time 2011 officially “ended” at our church yesterday. Being the Biblical numbers oriented person I am, I can’t leave us with only 6 tips. Besides that… we all need a reminder to continue seeking God. I’ve heard more about people in other churches and other places purposing to seek God through prayer and fasting during the first 40 days of this year, which I think is awesome. It’s definitely time for the Body of Christ to humble our hearts and seek His face, repenting and turning from our ways. But, you know…. isn’t it ALWAYS time?

I don’t know about you, but I have pushed into prayer and worship very intensely many times in my life with God. My question for myself, however, is: “Why did you stop?” I have never purposely relegated my special time with God to our corporate seeking times, but it certainly has inadvertently happened. I’ve prayed, gotten clarity, received deliverance, and accepted change…. then stopped pressing only to see myself drift back into some of the same things that had snared me before. I’m pretty tired of that, actually. I don’t want my only growth in Kingdom things to happen during “seeking time.”

There is a lot to be done in this day and time. Romans 8:19-22 speaks to us of the condition this earth is in as it awaits the manifestation of the sons of God. I know that I am a child of God, but I also recognize that there are things in my soul that fight against the full manifestation of my sonship… things like pride, apathy, self-sufficiency, lack of compassion. Seeking time is a great time to allow Holy Ghost to reveal and teach concerning these things, but those things, more than likely, have not entirely disappeared from my life over the last 40 days. So, why wait until next January? Why not just go ahead and ask God to continue His work in me… to continue revealing to me the things that need  purging from my life…to continue to add His grace to my desire to be free and to be more like Him.

All I’m saying is that, although 40 days have come and gone, seeking time ain’t really over ’til it’s ALL over!!

Can I get a witness anyone??

~Linda