Today’s Devotional Comes In The Form Of A Strong And Powerful Word, Through The Vehicle Of An Insightful Young Woman: Tracy A. Dixon
Is God Your Defender, or Does He Need Defending?
Proverbs 19:3 (New Living Translation)
3 People ruin their lives by their own foolishness
and then are angry at the Lord.
Today’s message in the music comes from the title of Shaggy's song "It wasn't me". A few weeks ago I posed the question on my Facebook: If you buy the gun, rob the bank, shoot someone, and then end up in jail, whose fault is it? The question came from a few situations that had come up in my circle of people around me. Sometimes we tend to make dumb decisions, and then say it’s God's will.
How do you cheat on your spouse, get another woman pregnant, and then say the child is from God? How do you commit a series of crimes, end up in jail, and then say you had a jail ministry on your life? How is it that we can meet someone, get them to open up to us, abuse them and throw them away, then say God only ordained them to be in our lives for a season? We as Christians have made God and His grace and mercy our scapegoat. The Bible says He can turn things around for our good, but that doesn't mean it was in His will.
I do believe every child is a gift from God, but I don't believe they are all conceived in His will. We have free will for a reason. We like to play the free will card when we want to do things our way, but then place that same card at the bottom of the deck when all hell breaks loose. I'm in no way saying that some things don't happen in our lives because God is trying to teach us something, show us or grow us into a new thing. But sometimes we end up in bad situations because of plain ole, downright dumb choices we willingly make.
Today as we begin a new week, let us take responsibility for the place we find ourselves in. Let us sort out what’s really been God, and what’s been the lack of God in our decision making. My stomach turns when I hear people say: "God let me get pregnant at fourteen, so I could be a witness to other young girls." No, the fact you laid down with a young man and either used no protection, or your methods of protection didn't work, is what "let u get pregnant." God is in court screaming, " Your honor, people of the jury, IT WASN'T ME." Let God be the head of your defense team, and not the lead on the prosecutors side.
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