Menus are wonderful things. They offer choices. Last week, when we were dining out with friends, I thought about this as my wife paged through a menu as thick as a magazine. Faith, however, doesn’t work like a menu. At least not the type of faith that Jesus promoted. He doesn’t offer a bunch of spiritual options from which you can choose. It’s not as if you can choose three items from the following list, and ignore the rest: prayer, commitment, self-control, love for fellow believers, plove for all people… Still, that’s exactly what many people do. We have a spiritual menu. We serve God on our terms and inside our comfort zones. We follow Him as long as we can determine the way, the direction and the sacrifices.
No, God is not a Funspoiler. He is not out to try and spoil your fun. The Lord’s route is really packed full with joy. He leads us on the route of happiness… but then it’s on his terms! On Christ’s route we are always followers. We don’t take the lead. That’s why we don’t have the “luxury” of deciding when we want to pray and when we don’t. Or when we want to care about others and when we want to be rude. We serve God full-time, like Jesus explains in Luke 17:7-10. We all have the same calling: to be his disciples! Take note, not his admirers, fans or supporters!
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