{"id":892,"date":"2009-11-03T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"565374164"},"modified":"2009-11-03T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:45:02","slug":"five-best-things-god-never-said-part-3-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-get-hurt-count-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/five-best-things-god-never-said-part-3-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-get-hurt-count-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Best Things God Never Said, Part 3: You\u2019re Going to Get Hurt; Count on It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As a speaker for God, not only do I face people who are hostile and have no belief, but I also have as much trouble from those who have too much belief.\u00a0 By that I mean they over-hype God.\u00a0 They make promises God never made<\/strong> in order to either make God look better or to make their own ministries seem worth supporting.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s hard to know the difference.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s important for me, particularly as I am on this journey at The Gathering, dealing with disappointments, to talk about the 5 best things God never said,<\/strong> because most people deal with the over-hyping of God.\u00a0 If you reject the truth about what God offers and promises, that\u2019s one thing. But if you\u2019re confronted with an exaggeration, a religious promise that God never made, that\u2019s another.<\/p>\n

So far we\u2019ve talked about the two best things God never said.\u00a0 God never said that you wouldn\u2019t feel lonely, just that you would never be alone.<\/em> And God never said that you would have all you wanted, just all that you\u2019d ever need.<\/em><\/p>\n

So here is the third best thing God never said.\u00a0 God never said you wouldn\u2019t get hurt.<\/p>\n

We have this idea that Jesus is like a lucky charm, a rabbit\u2019s foot, a mantra that we can whisper when we\u2019re in desperate situations.\u00a0 And He would somehow come and cover us so that we wouldn\u2019t get hurt either physically, emotionally, mentally, or relationally.<\/p>\n

So people turn prayer into a magic chant using Jesus as the secret formula.\u00a0 And when He doesn\u2019t show up, when the hurt comes, when the bad news is delivered, when the husband walks away, or the child is killed, people are left angry; not just at the situation, but at a God who promised that if they would love Him and trust Him and be good and go to church and be generous, that they would be able to avoid the hurts that other people face.<\/p>\n

So here is the truth. God never promised you wouldn\u2019t get hurt, just that He would get you home safely. <\/strong> Remember, as a Christian, we have two citizenships:\u00a0 one, of this earth, and our mission is to make something beautiful and redemptive of our lives; and two, we are a citizen of the life to come \u2013 eternity where there, too, we\u2019ll be making something of our lives.\u00a0 The journey from here to there is always a dangerous one no matter how good you are.<\/p>\n

Yes, we do have God\u2019s protection.\u00a0 We have His promises.\u00a0 But the application of that protection and those promises are strictly up to God.\u00a0 And that requires trust.\u00a0 And that is the issue, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 When we\u2019re disappointed, it\u2019s always a matter of trust.\u00a0 So God asks you to trust Him, that He\u2019ll get you home safely; that while you\u2019ll wander through dangerous neighborhoods and go through dark periods, He is not far away.\u00a0 Though He may be silent, He is not still.\u00a0 And though He may seem distant, He is ever present.\u00a0 He will get you home safely.\u00a0 You can count on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a speaker for God, not only do I face people who are hostile and have no belief, but I also have as much trouble from those who have too much belief.\u00a0 By that I mean they over-hype God.\u00a0 They make promises God never made in order to either make God look better or to … Continue reading “Five Best Things God Never Said, Part 3: You\u2019re Going to Get Hurt; Count on It”<\/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\/892"}],"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=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}