Earlier this week,
I felt the Lord ask me a question: “Danny, If you had to live your last 10 years over again, what would you have done
differently?” After marinating on that question, I said, “Lord, I would have
taken more risks to win people for the Kingdom of God.” Friend, God
never intended for your story to end up on
a sour note. Have you ever heard somebody sing off pitch? My wife and I love to watch American Idol. There are some
who think they can sing because mom told them they could. When the judges get
that look of torture listening to them, you know they’re off pitch! God wants you to stay “on pitch” with
your song, even in the midst of your pain.
All of us will be
given an opportunity to Give God the Glory with our Story. If you
haven’t taken the opportunity to do that, you may want to go back and reevaluate
where you got off track! Satan always tempts us to whine, complain and get
bitter with our chaos in life. You say, “But I’ve gone through a divorce, bankruptcy, lost my job, lost my health, lost
my joy, and I’ve lost my way in life. It’s a choice to believe, “All things
work together for good to them who love the Lord.”
God never allowed
you to face your setback in order for you
to lose your way for God’s plan in your life. God says, “It rains on the just
and the unjust.” What happens to you
isn’t as important is how you respond to what happens to you. We choose
how we respond to our test, our mess, and
our dilemma. You can choose to see the good in your test and then share your glorious
testimony. We can choose to believe that God will turn our mess into a miracle.
We can choose to turn our dilemma into a great deliverance. The real question
becomes, “What is God up to in our chaos?” Could He not be planning a great celebration?
What is God seeing in my pain that will lead to the wonderful Peace of God?
What is God seeing in my sorrow that will bring about a genuine smile?
When others realize
that there is genuine depth to our smile because God has brought us through our
sorrow, then our test becomes a great testimony for somebody else to
believe. Can God really get some glory
out of your story? Absolutely!
Three Hebrew men
chose not to complain in their fiery trial. They chose not to
question God and bow down to the King’s fiery furnace. They said, “Our God is able to deliver us; but even if He doesn’t,
we will still not bow!” At the end of the day
The Lord showed up as the 4th man in the fire. The King then stated,
“There is no other God like the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.” Does your family, friends, co-labors at
work say that about your God? Or do they see and hear another sour note
about your pain and sorrow?
God never intended
for our pain to push people away
from Christ. God never planned or anticipated for
our mess to muddy the waters for an unbeliever. Paul states, “I would
have you to know that the things that have happened to me have happened
for the furtherance of the Gospel.”(Phil 1:12) Paul could have whined and
complained about his years in a prison cell, but he chose to write and
encourage the churches he had begun. During his season in prison, he wrote one-third of the New Testament. What are you doing
with your story? Will you use it to give God glory? When, where, and how will you
put it into action? What will you do with your story this year, the next five
or ten years? Or will you look back and say, why didn’t I use it to WIN
One More for Christ? Go ahead, tell somebody today what the Lord has done for
you, and watch God get the glory out of your pain, sorrow and chaos. God can
truly turn it for the furtherance of the gospel.
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