The Thursday Update

MAY 30, 2024

Lakeshore Friends—

Can you imagine having God ask you to do something that you could do and is reasonable and then responding to Him, “I’m sorry God, I’m just too busy.”?  It would be hard to say that to God, if we had a conversation with him.  Just the thought of saying “no” to God for a request like this would be unthinkable.  It would seem so wrong for many reasons, like:

1. Well, because He is God!

2. Imagine if God were too busy for us?

3. Our belief that God is good leads us to the conclusion that all He asks of us is good, for Him and for us too.

4. Maybe, it would reveal that our fellowship with God is not that strong.  Or worse, that we really do not have a relationship with God that is genuine.  Yikes!

I think you can see that for these reasons and more, it would be wrong to say no to God.  Even if we are busy… really, really, really busy!

Yet, this is what people do all the time to God.  They say “no” to Him at various times and in various ways.  And when you boil it all down, when we say no to God we are saying we know what’s best for our lives more than He does.  Double yikes!

Being busy is never an excuse not to do what God wants.  Being tired isn’t either.  Neither are the cares of this life.

As crazy busy as life gets sometimes, learn to say “yes” to God every time if you want to live a life worthy of His calling of you.  On Sunday, along with 8 exciting baptisms and testimonies of people who said “yes” to Jesus and baptism, I’ll share a story Jesus told about the importance of saying “yes” to God, and the danger of saying “no” to His commands.  As challenging as saying “yes” can sometimes be, it beats losing out by saying “no” to the God who always says “yes” and “amen” to us through His unbreakable promises (2 Corinthians 1:20).

I hope you’ll say “yes” to being here on Sunday.

Warmly,
Vince