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I wonder if a lot of people who call themselves \u201cChristians\u201d are really people who, at the end of the day, dare I say, are just lazy.\u00a0 Harsh?\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 They do stupid, self-destructive stuff, and think prayer to God will get them out of the fix they acted their way into?<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not looking for a life with a relationship, a challenge, or an adventure.\u00a0 They\u2019re looking for a God who will do all of their living for them.<\/strong> When they make stupid choices they just say, \u201cGod, fix me.\u201d\u00a0 When they live an unbridled, undisciplined life, they just pray, \u201cGod, fix me.\u201d<\/p>\n It is not God\u2019s job to fix you.\u00a0 Here is God\u2019s job: to keep His promises. <\/strong> What are they?\u00a0 Well, Jesus said it simply this way, \u201cCome that you might have life and have it to the full.\u201d Or the one I like best, \u201cmore abundantly.\u201d<\/p>\n So, God has given us life, a body, a mind, a heart, a soul, intelligence, creativity (because we\u2019re created in His image) and He says<\/strong>, \u201cGo out and use them. I\u2019ll be there with you.\u00a0 I\u2019ll go through the valleys as well as the hills.\u00a0 But you go out and live your life.\u00a0 Make the mistakes.\u00a0 Fall down.\u00a0 And when you can\u2019t get up on your own, I\u2019ll help you up.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not going to keep you from the stress, the strain, and the pressure of life because that is really indeed what makes you alive.\u201d<\/p>\n If you are a person looking for faith and you\u2019re looking for a God that practices magic in the Christian God, you can keep on looking, because He\u2019s simply not into it.\u00a0 He\u2019s into redeeming, restoring, and reconciling.<\/strong> Each one of these issues is a big, epic idea.\u00a0 It takes a lifetime to live out.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard, it\u2019s difficult, but it certainly is worth it.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for a God to love you, help you, bless you; redeem, restore, and reconcile your life, good news!\u00a0 His name is Jesus.<\/strong> If you\u2019re looking for a God to fix you and to follow you around with a little pooper-scooper every time you make a mistake, then you\u2019re out of luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wonder if a lot of people who call themselves \u201cChristians\u201d are really people who, at the end of the day, dare I say, are just lazy.\u00a0 Harsh?\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 They do stupid, self-destructive stuff, and think prayer to God will get them out of the fix they acted their way into? They\u2019re not … Continue reading “It\u2019s Not God\u2019s Job to Fix You”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}