If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”
Yesterday some will say that I should not have admitted I got the Word Preparedness wrong, that it wasn’t the Word of the Lord at all.
I say malarkey. Excuse my cussing.
The Lord gave me the Work Preparedness to demonstrate exactly what happens when we look to our own concerns rather than His. I did not get it right the first two times because I allowed my own concerns for this country to be put before what God wanted to say. No matter how smart we are, no matter how dedicated and persistent we are, we are still human and we will always struggle with that because we are not yet perfected.
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
Doing well might get us accepted as it was said to Cain but doing right is about seeing to it that God’s promises are kept. Doing righteousness and justice is impossible without taking God’s righteousness, Jesus Christ, into account for the choices we make. My fears and doubts were self serving. I was not serving the Lord.
It took three tries to see that. Getting the message right is not as easy as hearing and believing. We must see things from the standpoint of our position in God’s promises and serve His will from where we stand.
In following Jesus we must be aware that looking at all the dangers on each side and making a choice that isn’t following Jesus. He got us this far, don’t get sidetracked just because you don’t like seeing what is going on around you.
I did and I was wrong. That is the lesson of Preparedness.