Out Of His Will

 OUT OF HIS WILL - "PLAYING "TIN MARIN?"

I recently saw a thought attributed to John Owen on the internet. I say: 'attributed' because the truth is I was not there when he said it nor have I read any of his books, so I am not completely sure that he said it.

The truth is, whether it is his or not, the idea is very interesting. You say like this: "Pray, hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and accept whatever God decides to send you."

I was surprised because it is not something that a 'politically correct' Christian could say, because modern Christians preach that if a true Christian is in the will of God, nothing can go wrong because 'The will of God is good, acceptable and perfect' (Romans 12:2)

The detail of that statement is that we forget that what is good, pleasant and perfect for God, may not be so for us.

Really! It is incredible to believe that the 'good, pleasant and perfect' will was for Stephen to be stoned to death or for Peter to be crucified or for many Christians to be impaled and used as human lamps. But it was God's perfect will!

I don't think that was very good and pleasant for those brothers of ours who were impaled, others burned alive, others sawed, and stop counting.

The thought of Brother Owen that I spoke about a while ago seemed very interesting to me in relation to my own life because several people to whom I have told what I have experienced in these last eight years and some who read the book I wrote have told me things like:

-"Take heart brother, look at it as a learning experience, that is so that in the future you think about things better and don't leave the first ones"

-"Well brother, that's so that before looking for an escape you think things through"

And when they tell me those things I always think "Could it be that they believe that I didn't pray before coming to this place?" "Could it be that they think that I chose to come here playing 'de tin marin, de do pingué'?

Since I was young I have been a person of prayer, when I studied at high school I arrived before my classmates and prayed for each seat, for the teacher (at Cruz del Valle R high school)

At the institute I established a time of prayer with all the Christians who studied there. And every place I worked I had individual prayer times or I would bring together Christians who worked at the same place and set up prayer meetings.

And before deciding to come here I prayed like never before, I hardly slept because the burden I felt was horrible.

Beloved, we must put aside this romantic gospel that says that if we are with God nothing bad will happen to us and that if we are in the perfect will of God everything will be beautiful. Lie! Jesus on the cross (which was the perfect will of God) did not say: "Eli, Eli, HOW HAPPY I AM, HOW GOOD I FEEL."

Something that I really hate is asking for help, especially for money and in these times I have had to ask and I see Christians like "If it was God who called him, God must supply him because God who he calls supplies him, surely he left for "outside the will of God"

How awesome!

The apostle Paul himself says that he was hungry, 1 Corinthians 4:11 "And surely Paul was outside the will of God" - Sarcasm -

And let's not even talk about the prophets!

For the majority, every time they had to give a word FROM GOD, it went badly. In fact we have one they call "The Weeping Prophet"

The problem is that the current gospel does not prepare us for bad things, because the current gospel tries to be attractive and if it talks about suffering it does not fill the church and currently almost everyone wants huge churches full of people.

How tremendous that today if there is a brother in need, they are not helped because:

-If it is true that God called him, God will support him.

-What happens to you is because of his bad decisions, so bear the consequences of his bad decisions.

-That happened because he didn't pray.

-That's what happens to you for doing things outside of God's will.

Oh my God! How much we have to learn my brothers!

God have mercy on us, it is advisable to remove the beam from our eye to stop believing that someone who goes through a bad moment, or bad weather or several horrible years (as is my case) is because it is not in God's will or because He didn't pray enough.

Today I analyzed that the Bible says: “Give to anyone who asks you;” Luke 6:30. And it does not say: “Find out first if things are going badly for him because it is outside of God's will, or if he is doing badly because he made the wrong decisions and then help him.” Obviously, if we see a need we do not have to wait for them to ask us. .

A few days ago, I told some people that I have known for a few months about my situation and then I told them “I am not going to ask you for anything, you already know the situation, it is not pride, but if you already know it is not necessary that I have to ask you.”

Beloved, if we are going to question someone's spirituality whether things are going well or badly, we could say that the Apostle Paul was not a man of God and that Joel Osteen is the greatest man of God who has ever existed.

Oh my loves, I assure you that what is happening to me is not due to a lack of prayer and it does not mean that the fact that I am experiencing so much need and horrible things because it is outside of God's will, that is not what the Bible teaches. .

And I am not making this publication just because of what they say about me, but for all the brothers in the world who are judged as people who do not pray or who are outside of God's will because things are going badly for us.

Obviously I am not the best Christian in the world nor even the Christian I want to be, but I assure you that it was not for lack of prayer or because I played 'tin marin' to come here.

Oh beloved, how much we have to learn.

Kisses, I am Profe Bubba