ON GOD’S SIDE
During my varsity football
career, our team would kneel and pray before every game. It somehow seemed inappropriate to pray for a
win. After all, logic dictated that the
other team might be praying at the same time for a victorious outcome. Obviously both teams would not win. My personal prayer was that we would all do
our very best with little or no injuries.
As an active listener, I am
inundated with self-serving commentary by contemporary groups who stand in diametrically
opposite positions regarding their plans, politics, policies, or prospects for peace. More often than not, each group lays confident
claim to the notion that God is on their particular side. I suppose it’s always been that way throughout
human history.
During the US Civil War,
President Abraham Lincoln met with a group of ministers for a prayer
breakfast. Lincoln wasn’t much of a
church-goer, but was considered to be a man of deep, if at times unorthodox,
faith. At one point during the event,
one of the ministers remarked, “Mr. President, let us pray that God is on our
side.” Lincoln’s response revealed far
greater insight: “No, gentlemen, let us pray that we are on God’s side.”
Lincoln reminded those ministers that faith is not a tool by which
we get God to do what we want, but an honest determination to open ourselves to
being and enacting what God wants.
Before you announce proudly
that God is on your side, make sure (first) that you are on His.
Sisters and brothers, be continually
blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON
COMING KING. Maranatha!
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