Text: Nehemiah 2:9-20
Knowing God’s will for our lives can be tricky. I’ll admit, I’ve tried to circumvent the process a time or two. (If you happen to check my browser history, please ignore the Google search, “How do I know God’s will for my life?” And please also ignore anything having to do with rashes.)
But other times, God’s will is as clear as day. Or in Nehemiah’s case, as we read earlier this week, it can be as clear as an obvious statement from God. Knowing God’s will isn’t the tricky part in those instances. You’ve discovered the path, now it’s the carrying it out that stretches us.
Walking in His ways won’t always be popular. Others will be “very much disturbed.” (Nehemiah 2:10, NIV)
We may not have a team standing alongside of us, just a few helpers and the shirt on our back.
There will be gates we can’t get through, obstacles and gates and upon careful examination, we’ll realize the daunting task before us.
We’ll search our motives. Are we telling everyone, for our own glory, what God put on our hearts to do as an act of obedience? (Nehemiah 2:12, NIV) Or is our right hand unaware of what our left hand is doing (Matthew 6:3, NIV), because we know we can’t lay claim to our obedience?
In our walk, there has to come a point where we block out the naysayers. A point when we stop surmising what we don’t have to accomplish the task and when we stop examining how very hard it will be.
There comes a point, with a prayer and pure motives, where we just begin the good work.
In spite of the seemingly insurmountable, the mockery and ridicule, He will give us success.
Just begin the good work.
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You people are ridiculous. You don’t need an invisible man to tell you how to be, who to be, or why to be that way. When’s the last time god spent time with you? Texted you? Called you? All the things that happen in life you assume a ghost did for you or re a result of praying(talking to yourself) when it’s just chance. Prayer Is just a game of chance and when you get what you want you assume god has answered you prayers, but pray to a fucking desk and the same occurs. Religious people can be so judgemental too. Mostly Christians. God’s allegedly this all knowing loving being, yet in the book you call the bible he’s a very judgemental, racist, sexist person. If you read the whole thing it’s impossible to get to heaven. God’s an asshole in the book. Old testament or new who cares. He says people are to be stored to death yet thou shall not kill? Well that’s odd. He also says he’ll turn you against your mother, father, friend, neighbor and so on. Wow how friendly. Then he says you are to put him before everyone? Gee, before my own family who gave birth to me and raised me and made me the person I am today and educated me? What a nice guy your god is. People are so fixated on believing in this god but why? Mainly because you can’t deal with the idea that when you die it’s over? I get that, but people are being lied to and misled. Also why is religion soooooo superficial? Golden gates? All this money to churches we donate? Have you seen some of these christian establishment’s? They’re huge and the people who own them are rich? Why does God need all that money? Think he has a checking account? He’ll no. However they sing songs like all the money and possessions don’t add up to the love God has for you, as they ask for donations for the church. Religion is a huge creator of revenue and power. It’s all about control. Awfully funny how so many laws and rules of God are similar. Control. You people can accept that santa isn’t real yet you suddenly are 3 years old when it comes to this jests. And why is it that he hasn’t come back? Or that we have no actual photographs of him or real records of his last time here? Why is it that it was soooooo darn long ago that we can’t prove or disprove his presence on earth? Awfully fishy to me, and yet very clever. Look, they say everything has a creator. A painting has a painter and a building has a builder, and this earth has God. However you can usually call or text or email the painter, and when you roof blows off from a storm you can call the builder, but when the fuck is the last time you successfully got through to God’s phone? 555-1212?do you even have his phone number? Who’s his service provider? What’s his email? Stop praising someone so much for doing everything for you that he hasn’t truly done. We are all capable of accomplishing amazing things, and when we do we need to learn how to credit ourselves for it. Humans are very sophisticated, why can’t we accept that were capable of so many things and instead have to thank this imaginary being for everything. Back to prayer though… This is my favorite thing religious people do. What about all the amputee victims? I guarantee they pray to God for help getting that limb back… However we know that never happens and when asked why this is religious people experience an awkward feeling and almost always have to use an excuse along the lines of well, that must be gods special plan for him.. God has a plan for him or her, or them or has a plan for me, when really this has a plan line is but a line of mumbo jumbo. It means nothing, it’s an empty useless line. So why can god answer my prayers or requests but not poor children who have lost limbs or are starving and dying in other countries. Why do we have jets offs blowing people up in Boston, crashing planes in new York,shooting people in movie theaters, or in schools? Less people believe now days, and the more educated people don’t believe. You people need to get a grip on reality and stop it with being so judgemental, and pushy. Worse off religious people are so open about it and push it on others yet a guy who speaks out against it isn’t allowed. How do you say the word Cult.
Get a life. God’s a dick, and you people are all followers. Sheep. Live by your own morals.. You know Wittout a bible what’s wrong and right. You know within and without God that killing is not what were supposed to do, or that being hateful is negative and gets us nowhere, weknow all this things. CCheck out God is imaginary. Com and watch the videos, take the challenges and see how many of the questions you can truly answer with real supportive documented educated answers. Remove the whole faith thing and you’re left sitting there saying wtf. Open your minds.
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@Carolynmimi praying…also praying for God’s perfect will in your life JuneBug.
Thank you Cynthia. :)