Sometimes I feel lost. Sometimes i just wish that God would reveal more of his will to me that I may be able to know where he wants me to go. I want to dedicate my life to following him and sometimes i just feel that i have no clue what he wants me to do. I look back into the old testament (Tanak) and I see Abraham with these revelations from the Lord, and I, in my arrogance, wish that I could have some kind of a revelation like that.
But now as my eyes have been opened a tiny bit to realize that we have the most amount of the Lord's revealed will, more than than any generation or group found in the scriptures. The Lord's will is revealed through progressive revelation, it wasn't just all poured into Moses and he wrote everything right then. It came through a thousand years of revelation that was written down as it was received. Take Abraham for example, he lived in a time where there were no written records. He couldn't just go pick up his ESV study bible, that we all have come to know and love, and read the old testament and about the coming messiah that would bring salvation from our sin. He couldnt read about the amazing love that Yahweh has for us. All he knew was what his fathers had passed on through oral recitation. And yet when the Lord came to him and said: "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's hourse to the land that i will show you."(Gen 12:3) he packed up all of his stuff and left everything he knew and left his country to follow what God had commanded him. If God came to me and said that to me, as much as i would hope that i had the faith to do what Abraham did, I think realistically that I would most likely react by saying 'What land? Which one? Can it wait till after bible college? Im not prepared, Im not holy enough to do this, im going to screw it up' And I think that i most likely would wait for the Lord to show me the land before going, saying 'Well I best not start going the wrong way, so I'll just wait for him to load up Google maps for me'. I gotta ask myself sometimes what kind of faith I'm living, I have this huge bible filled with God's revealed will through the scripture, and i can read of how God is faithful in everything he does.
And on a side note it's crazy to think of how faithful God is. Like when I promise something, i really don't have the authority to say that at all, because really i have no control, i have absolutely no authority, all authority on heaven and earth is the Lord's! If i promise someone, for example, that i will be here at a certain time I am assuming i have the authority to make sure i am here, but really all things must be done in submittance to the Lord because he can decide to humble me by simply making sure i was not there, or maybe it was not in his will that i be there. But when the Lord promises something he has the authority to do that, and countless times in the scripture we see how God is faithful to his promises, and he never fails. Even when we fail God prevails and he keeps his promises even after we break ours countless times.
But even after all of this I gotta ask, Where is our faith? Is it really placed in God? Am I counted righteous through my faith? Or will i be one of the ones that is talked about in Matt 7:21-23 when it says: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will i declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness."
Ive always rushed right past this verse, thinking 'Oh yah this is a good verse for so and so. . ' thinking that I would never be that guy. But really when you look at these people saying this you can see that they are shocked. They have worked their whole life thinking that they were doing it right. They were probably taught that this is the way to love the Lord. And yet Christ never knew them and they never knew Christ! How do we know that we are actually doing it right and we arent just deceiving ourselves? And if we are going by the assumption that if we truly believe that we are loving Christ the way he has asked then we are regarding that verse as invalid. We are held accountable because we have no reason to be left misguided, we have the scripture at our fingertips, we can read and study and understand what Christ has commanded of us.
Thus i have said what i have said.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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