Did you hit a God wall?/
Scenario – You collided with God. Ever woke up and wondered in disbelief “what just happened?” Everything was going along smoothly and the next moment life was altered to an unimaginable extent. That is the time when every shred of your faith will be tested. In order to survive you will have to hold on to the fact that it is a test. Somehow in our name it and claim it, pray till you prosper, and God won’t let anything happen to you spiritual climate we forget what God said or rather choose not to entertain it. He said FIGHT the good fight of faith. He said think it not strange when adversities come to test you. He said many are the afflictions of the righteous but God delivers them from them all.
Now why did he speak those words? It was because he knew that days like the unimaginable would come and he wanted to anchor us to him as life falls apart. It is amazing that the Lord says when I return will I find FAITH upon the earth. That is a pretty big deal. He already let us know that turbulent times would come and that they would be enough to sink people’s faith. Jesus told Peter in his hour of great distress, I pray that your faith fail not. He is speaking those same words to people all over the world today as everything around us seems to be in collapse. Some have not felt it yet because they have loads of money buffering them. But just in case one day you find yourself without loads of money buffering you, hear the word of the Lord – he will take care of you.
The biggest challenge will be for people’s religious beliefs not to collide with God. This is what I mean by that statement. For over at least the last 25 to 30 years most pulpits have offered an easy gospel. In the easy gospel pain is prayed away, suffering does not exist, God loves everybody don’t worry about Hell just bask in the goodness of God and if you have enough faith you can change any circumstance, and put all your money in church and believe for a great financial harvest. It is The Gospel According to Prosperity. Though there are truths in those doctrines, it is my belief that those truths have been grossly misconstrued. The foundation is not steady or stable and when the intensity of a trial hits people’s faith will fail. God’s word will hold true, will I find faith upon the earth.
True faith is this – your wholehearted ability to believe in God no matter what comes your way. That is why when Christians were lit up as torches in the Roman games they were singing to the death. That is why when Paul ship was in the middle of a cyclone he held on to a piece of wood and made it to shore. That is why woman in the book of Hebrews could watch their children being killed before their eyes and still praise God saying I will see them again. That is why Moses gave up the riches of Egypt and followed God into a life of much tribulation for the sake of the kingdom. All these people understood that true faith is all about God, not in what you obtain from God. It is face forward looking at adversity and loss and still being able to say God will never let me down and we will make it.
If you find your beliefs colliding with God’s truths give up your beliefs. This is a time when it would be wise to put everything you think you know to the side and say Holy Spirit guide me into the truth about God’s word so that I will not be deceived when tribulations come. As he leads you many beliefs will come up as wood, hay and stubble as they are tested against the all-consuming power of God. But if you allow him to test those doctrines the end result will be that what remains will be pure gold and able to carry you through any adversity that lays just down the road.
