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Can I Get Through Here?

It doesn’t matter if we’re a new Christian anxious to start serving God, or we accepted Christ long ago, and we have been serving Him for years, there are times when in our zeal to serve God we get tired of waiting for God. We get so anxious to get started with that new building, changing our praise style, or reaching new people to witness Christ to we impetuously start without God’s approval.

Without God’s will, His timing and His resources we surely will hit some major potholes down the road. We should understand God is under no obligation to finance and equip our plan if it doesn’t agree with His plan. Sorry.

Another way we can run into difficulties in serving God is allowing our pride get in our way. There is a Scripture found in (Proverbs 29:23) that speaks to what I am saying here, “A man’s pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor.” Pride has gotten in the way of many good ministries. Pride will cause us to determine to have things go our way instead of the way God wants them to go. Pride is something the evil one uses to disrupt and destroy the good in God’s plan by making us think it’s all about how we want it to happen. In (1 John 2:16) the Word says, “The pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.”  Pride makes our service to God about us not Him.

Those who are leaders in the faith have an obligation to be about God’s work, not their own. The Bible refers to leaders as “overseers” and lays out some important qualifications for overseers. One Scripture that speaks to this is; (1Timothy 3:1) “This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.” The Bible goes on to describe the bishop as one who is blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, and able to teach. Overseers recognize God uses many different people in accomplishing His work. Each one of us contributes an important part of God’s overall plan. The “body of Christ” is made up of hands, feet, eyes and ears, and all are important. Effective overseers work with the whole body and never allow pride to affect God’s work.

Stop, look and listen to God.

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