Only the loyal soul believes that God engineers circumstances. We take enormous liberties with our circumstances, treating the things that happen as if they\u2019d been engineered by human beings. We say we believe God is in control, but we don\u2019t really. If we did, we\u2019d be faithful to him in every circumstance; we\u2019d have just one loyalty, and that would be to our Lord.<\/p>\n
Most of us tend to go about our lives thinking we\u2019re in control. Then, suddenly, God comes in and breaks up our circumstances, and we have the shocking realization that he was in control all along and that we\u2019ve been disloyal to him by not recognizing it. We didn\u2019t see the special thing he was trying to create with our circumstances, and now the thing is gone, never to be repeated all the days of our life; the test of loyalty always comes in this way. We have to learn that if we will worship God in difficult times, he will show us that he can alter our circumstances in two seconds flat, whenever he chooses.<\/p>\n
Loyalty to Jesus Christ is what we stumble over today. We will be loyal to work, to service, to anything else; just don\u2019t ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ. Many Christians are intensely impatient of talk about loyalty to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more emphatically by Christian workers than by the world. God is turned into a machine for generating blessings, and Jesus into a worker among workers.<\/p>\n
The idea we should have isn\u2019t that we work for God but that we are so loyal to him that he can work through us. God wants to use us as he used his own Son. When Jesus said, \u201cYou will be my witnesses\u201d (Acts 1:8), he meant \u201cwitnesses who satisfy me in any circumstance I put you in, witnesses I am counting on for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on mine.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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