How Safe is God's Will?

The other day I was doing my devotions and I was amazed to hear God talking. Funny how that works huh? Actually I’m not sure if he did a lot of talking or just really got me thinking. Thinking about His will. I realized I was raised with faulty theology. To top it off I realized I had taught faulty theology. I had taught that if everything went well and doors opened and all was well then you were in God’s will. If things went wrong then you were not in God’s will. And if we were unsure then we broke it down to the big three. Remember – “The good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.” So if it kinda messed up then we must be in the Good will of God but not the perfect will of God. Now I would love to follow this whole line of thinking for you but you can do it yourself. Because after all if we work our way from good to perfect then that makes our belief structure performance based instead of faith based. But let’s get back to the God’s will thing before you get tired of reading this blog.

If we say that we can know God’s will based upon our safety, provision, and ease then we are not reading the same Bible. Let’s do an old school recap of our favorite bible characters. John the Baptist; was he in God’s will? Jesus said he was the greatest man to ever walk the earth – oops imprisoned and decapitated. John the disciple; beloved of Christ – mocked, eyes gouged out, outcast, and martyred. Paul the apostle; writer of 1/3 of the N.T. – whipped, stoned, shipwrecked, etc. This is but a small sampling to show that being in God’s will has really nothing to do with our present circumstances. I think sometimes we say well, it’s not God’s will because this didn’t happen or I’m uncomfortable. So what is God’s will? “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done.” Anything we do to advance the kingdom of heaven, IS his will. Many times that is the most dangerous-tricky-scary-place to be, but its still his will.

I am SO excited to be teaming up with you guys to help fulfill God’s dream for South Memphis. You guys are awesome and we are gonna rock. I know that for some of us everything is not going exactly as we had imagined. And that is okay. Because what we are embarking on is an adventure not a tourist train ride through Graceland. Its an adventure. Our ending is not guaranteed, our ease of life is not promised and our safety is not a promise. But in all of that is an outrageous chance to make a difference in this life. TO impact not just a few people for the cause of Christ, but a chance to impact an area, a city. To step out of the stands and step onto the battlefield. To drag off the wounded and to enlist the healthy. To shoot the enemy and protect the innocent. You guys can not only do it! We will do it!