Hebrews 6: 10-12 “God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.”
What else could go wrong? This is how God repays me? Does God HATE me? Can I sink any lower? It is so easy to question God’s timing sometimes. Sometimes it feels like you have done so much for Him and then things just don’t seem to go right – there is nothing that you can do to make anything better, but life just deteriorates. I have heard it so many times, “God isn’t fair”.
Something to think about though: all that you have done and sacrificed for Him, is that anywhere close to what He sacrificed for you? I mean really, God could just say, I sacrificed my SON for you – do you get that? Why would I have to do anything else for you? Fortunately, He isn’t like that. Fortunately God loves us. Fortunately, “through faith and patience” we will inherit what has been promised us by Jesus.
I read an article this morning about Christian persecution. About how a lot of the Muslim world, although (according to the article) not said to do so in the Koran, is abusing Christians, imprisoning them, beating them, raping them etc… The majority of us have heard of the Iranian Pastor that is in prison, on death row, due to be executed for sharing the gospel. I know that we aren’t in their shoes and that our lives revolve around something different, but put you in their shoes.
You are part of a Muslim nation but know that the ONE TRUE GOD is our God and Jesus is His son. You convert to Christianity. Someone finds out, you are disowned from your family, you may be beaten, abused, loose your job, loose your friends, be imprisoned, be killed… Physical and emotional abuse follows. You have a small group of individuals from your small home church to support you, but you cannot say on Facebook or anywhere else what is going on, you may not even be able to access that. You don’t have the support of everyone around you. Life is grinding to a screeching halt, but you know you have faith that God will provide, that ultimately, no matter how terrible things are, you have an eternal promise in Heaven.
What is happening in your life? What is going on that makes you shout to God and say “how could you Lord?” Do you have the faith to say, whatever is going on, “Lord, I still love you”? We have a sense of entitlement often times. We do this and this and this, we deserve this or that. While watching “Parks and Recreation” last night, they had a day called, “Treat Your Self” where no matter what they wanted, they bought because it was one day that they got to do things for them. In reality, in the real world, do we feel like we always deserve to treat ourselves?
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