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What to Do When Your Expectations Do Not Match Your Experience

Oct 28, 2019

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“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses."
(1 Timothy 6:12, NIV)

Deciding to turn from my disappointment (what the Bible calls “repentance”) and turn to embrace faith was the most difficult exercise God had ever asked me to do, but it was also the greatest blessing I have ever experienced.

According to Gallup surveys, confirmed by other polls taken over the past fifteen years, 33 percent of all Americans over age eighteen indicate they are evangelical or “born again” Christians. That translates into 59 million Christians, or one in every three adults, who experienced a turning point in their lives as they made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.

This information should grip us with terror. It means that the greatest revival in history has so far been impotent to change society. It’s revival without reformation. It’s a revival which left the country floundering in spiritual ignorance. It’s a change in belief without a corresponding change in behavior.…

How did the building blocks of the gospel become glued together with the cement of self-centeredness?
The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is the belief that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior. It is a spiritual experience without any cultural impact. It is revival without reformation, without repentance.…

The proof of religious conversion is to demonstrate that we have both added a relationship with Christ and that we have subtracted sin (repentance). And we multiply proof to a weary world by what we do - our deeds, our obedience. What we do must confirm what we say. Our deeds are the proof of our repentance.…

A changed life is one that has added Christ and subtracted sin, that attracts a world weary of worn-out words. Obedience is the proof.”

(From Walking with Christ in the Details of Life by Patrick Morley)

Let’s be honest, dear friend. It is hard to admit that we are wrong. But when we do, our God who created the universes from nothing comes rushing to help us live out the powerful Word of God.

  • What’s keeping you from trusting God with your disappointments today?

Rejoicing, On the Victory Side!

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