Hi All:
This was written by a Facebook friend of mine, Bill Dennington. I think you will find it worth the read :)
Terry
Bill Dennington
I
have had people as me over the years, “Why did this or that happen to
me?” or “Why did this or that happen to Brother or Sister So and So?” We
all want to know the answers to these questions, and rightfully so. We
want to know the answer to the age-old question, “Why do bad things
happen to good people?”
While there is no way anyone can know the
details that play into events in every situation, especially in the
lives of other people, I do know and have studied the truth of how
spiritual laws govern our lives as revealed in the pages of the Word of
God. I have discovered that just in the same manner as physical laws
govern our lives, so to do these spiritual laws govern our lives to
contribute to how things play out on a day to day basis.
God, in
His sovereignty, created both spiritual and physical laws. He has
revealed the secrets of spiritual law throughout the Bible. (By
spiritual law I am not talking about the Mosaic Law, but the laws of the
spirit realm that are functioning 24/7 just like the laws of physics do
in the natural realm).
Just as the laws of aerodynamics govern
flight, so do these spiritual laws govern the realm of the spirit. If
you violate any of the laws of aerodynamics you pay a price, sometimes a
great price. So too with the laws of the spirit, violate any of those
laws and you will pay a price. Live your life in a manner that is
putting those laws to work in your favor and you will live a blessed
life; live your life in a manner that puts those laws to work against
you and it will be difficult for you.
It takes knowledge of the
Word, wisdom from God, and the leading of the Holy Ghost to live
accurately in this earth where spiritual law is concerned. No one is
perfect, and we all can become complacent in being diligent to stay
disciplined in our lives spiritually. Thus, things can happen, even to
great Christian leaders that appear to not make any sense at all.
We
cannot know all that led up to individual situations playing out, that
is why we are not to judge. We can only judge ourselves and do our best
to live our lives in a manner that puts spiritual law to work in our
favor.
Sadly, the vast majority of churches today do little or no
teaching along this line. It is too easy to just blame God or the devil
as opposed to doing the necessary homework and get into the Word of God
and dig out wisdom and gain understanding and then teach it in a manner
that everyone realizes that they have a personal responsibility to live
their lives yielded to the Holy Spirit and let Him lead you each and
every moment of the day. He will not lead you in manner that causes you
to violate God’s Word or spiritual law.
Violating the law of love is
a big area that gums up the works in folk’s lives. In conjunction with
violating the law of love is violating the law of forgiveness; refusing
to forgive is deadly. Having an undisciplined tongue that speaks words
that license death rather than life is another area that causes major
issues in the lives of people. Too many Christians speak words of fear,
sickness, disease, death, poverty, lack, strife, hatred, and other such
words concerning themselves and others to the degree that it becomes
difficult, if not impossible, for God to bring blessing into their
lives.
Sowing and reaping governs this planet spiritually. Words are
seeds and will produce a harvest. Decisions are seeds and set definite
things into motion that produce a certain result. All of these things
play into weaving a tapestry of life that becomes extremely difficult to
unwind or undo without the help of the Holy Spirit and the power of the
blood of Jesus.
This is why renewing the mind to the realities of
who we are in Christ, what we possess in Christ, and what we can do
through Christ is so important. Our union with Him is what gives us the
ability to live in victory. Without Him, we can do nothing, but fail. He
is not an escape hatch to use when things get too screwed up to handle
it any longer. He must be the One to whom we inquire continually to have
the wisdom and understanding to know what to do and say that leads us
to victory and success. When we live that way we experience true success
and He gets all the glory for we cannot claim any of the results as
being due to our efforts. It is only our union with Him and living in
total dependency on that union that will produce the desired results in
life.
Jesus indicated that we can grow progressively in obtaining
those results: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred. So we can
grow and develop in these things and increase in our sensitivity to His
leading as well. This is what we should all strive for on a daily basis.
The greatest enemy of our day in that developmental process is
two-fold: becoming too busy and growing too lazy. Laziness is pretty
easily recognized, but being busy is much more sinister as it can be
justified in our minds. When we are so busy that we are not taking the
necessary time to pull aside and inquire of Him on a daily basis, even
if that busyness is ministry or church related, we are in dangerous
waters.
Psalm 23 and Psalm 91 speak to this matter. Those two
Psalms are closely related, as they both give us insight to the kind of
lifestyle that a believer needs to live to be successful in this
dangerous world we live in. The secret place is a place that is quiet
and still, peaceful and a place where we can listen and commune with
Him. Jesus spent much time there, and so should we. It is the one place
that we cannot abandon if we are going to live in victory in this dark
and dangerous world.
