Quote:
Originally Posted by Ohio
Because we often equated the Lord with "Christ and the church."
In other words, many of us ended up consecrating our time, our heart, our money, and our lives not just to the Lord, but to a ministry and a local program. Often we ended up with the church, but not with the Lord or our families.
|
I learned a lesson from Michael Jordan that I think we could all benefit from. Initially he was a very high scoring offensive player who made up about 33% of his teams offense. As a result other teams created all kinds of defensive schemes aimed solely at stopping him. The best defender on the team played him, etc. Instead of crying about how he was being "duped" he learned from them. He was getting tutored by the best defensive players, best defensive minds, and best defensive schemes. As a result he soon became defensive player of the year and was named to the all defensive team seven times.
Did it ever occur to those who are so upset that
"all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose."?
Perhaps this experience we had in the LRC which WL called "Training" was exactly the training that the Lord wanted for us?