Another Balance Message
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
Christian Article
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Bible Teaching
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Believers make God their God because they hear the good news and come to understand that God is a good, all-knowing, all-powerful, benevolent God and He is offering to save them and take care of them. Then teachers come along and say things like “We should just worship God and forget about always getting something.” or “We think too much about what God can do for us instead of just being obedient and take what comes.”
These statements come from two factors: One, it’s true that too many Christians are centered up on their own interests instead of Jesus’ interest and two, these statements sound so humble and pious.
True Christians may need to be reminded that they belong to Christ and that they need to be about the Father’s business, but the teacher has taken piety too far in saying that the Christian should not look for God, their Father, to take good care of them and help them and bless them, because the Bible teaches what God expects of the believer and goes right on to teach what the believer can expect from God.
In the Biblical balance the believer is to live for God, but God created man to gratify His joy in giving. You can’t out give the giver, in fact God would not be happy with children who acted like servants. He is happy with children who are eager to serve, but He is not looking for a Master/servant relationship with people, He wants a Father/child relationship with people.
So what should the teacher have said to make the point that Christians have a much broader area of concern than their own interests. Well, remember, I’m referring to believers who heard the good news and want God in their life. I am not referring to the group who just wants to go to heaven when they die and get their own way while here. The second group can’t be persuaded to live for God because that is not the deal they made. Most of the selfish Christians fall into the second group, but it is possible for some in the first group to get sidetracked. They need teachers who teach the whole message in the balance that only the Bible has. So the teacher teaches man’s part and God’s part--both of them already rightly worded in the Bible--teach the Bible--all of it.
This is important to know because if you give people the “We should” messages without giving them the reasons we should and the way to carry out the “We shoulds”, you’ll not get godly results, you’ll get insincerity, loveless love, and religion; for the joy of the relationship with the Godhead is in the mutual benefits. The life of the believer and the church is in a Father/child relationship with God.
Sylvia Huffnagle
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