‘If you accept this concept of personal holiness,
your life’s determined purpose will not be for God, but for what you call the
evidence of God in your life. How can we say, “It could never be God’s will for
me to be sick”? If it was God’s will to bruise His own Son (Isaiah 53:10), why
shouldn’t He bruise you? What shines forth and reveals God in your life is not
your relative consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but your
genuine, living relationship with Jesus Christ, and your unrestrained devotion
to Him whether you are well or sick.
Christian perfection is not, and never can be,
human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship with
God that shows itself to be true even amid the seemingly unimportant aspects of
human life. When you obey the call of Jesus Christ, the first thing that hits
you is the pointlessness of the things you have to do.’ CHAMBERS
When I gained my coherence after I contracted
malaria last month, the thought that occurred to me was “What was the point of
that?” The answer was … it doesn’t
matter what happens to you, the call of God does not change.” That was probably
the sickest I have ever been .. it was probably the best excuse, if I was
looking for one, to stay home and not go back to Haiti. I figured that if I asked friends and family
if they thought it would be OK, many would have said .. “You have done enough,
of course it is alright to not go back!”
Problem is, God has not released us from this
calling .. in spite of sickness .. and frankly, we never entertained or
discussed the idea of not returning to Haiti.
Pastor Rick Warren said that “God is more concerned with our character
not our comfort.” If you follow God, He
will take you through the furnace. 2
Corinthians chapter 1 says that God is the God of all comfort .. He comforts us
in our affliction … (that suggests that you WILL be afflicted) .. so we can
minister to others and comfort them with the same comfort we received. The affliction .. the malaria has a divine
purpose … Something to think about …
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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