’Tis a rare day I quote someone else. This is that day. Too good to pass up; I pass it on.
C.S. Lewis, renowned skeptic turned believer, penned, "There are only two kids of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done'; and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done'."
Remember the old Burger King commercial? For years, I have pondered but never preached a sermon entitled, "Have it Your Way". Repeatedly in Scripture God begrudgingly says precisely that. It never ends well. Recall Israel demanding meat from Moses in the wilderness. They got it...and serious indigestion. In I Samuel, the nation rejected God as their Theocratic leader and insisted upon a contemporary king. God warned them of dire consequences: they persisted, and lived to regret it. Jesus wept over Jerusalem uttering mournful words, "...but you would not have it". Three times, Romans chapter one describes humanity's relentless descent into moral morass. Each time, Paul
inserts the obtuse remark, "God gave them over".
In essence, "O.K., have it your way".
--It doesn't have to be that way.
C.S. Lewis, renowned skeptic turned believer, penned, "There are only two kids of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done'; and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done'."
Remember the old Burger King commercial? For years, I have pondered but never preached a sermon entitled, "Have it Your Way". Repeatedly in Scripture God begrudgingly says precisely that. It never ends well. Recall Israel demanding meat from Moses in the wilderness. They got it...and serious indigestion. In I Samuel, the nation rejected God as their Theocratic leader and insisted upon a contemporary king. God warned them of dire consequences: they persisted, and lived to regret it. Jesus wept over Jerusalem uttering mournful words, "...but you would not have it". Three times, Romans chapter one describes humanity's relentless descent into moral morass. Each time, Paul
inserts the obtuse remark, "God gave them over".In essence, "O.K., have it your way".
--It doesn't have to be that way.