WRONG CONCLUSION #1: Life Should Be Easy
When did we begin to equate safety with the will of God?
HOW could God let this happen?!
WRONG CONCLUSION #2: God is Cruel.
There are levels to this:
Level one is the world’s way of thinking.
Level two is the church’s way of thinking.
Level three is the Kingdom’s way of thinking.
Jesus acknowledges this discrepancy: “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.”
Matthew 5:43-45 NLT
WRONG CONCLUSION #3: I’m my own provider.
Genesis 40:1-23
Ephesians 4:26-27
WRONG CONCLUSION #4: Forgiveness = trust