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Are You Using God’s Will as an Excuse?
How often do you act completely against your own will to follow God? Or are you using God’s Will as a Justification for Doing Something Unpopular?
Decisions are hard, life-changing, and have big implications for the future.
If I take option A, I am choosing to not get whatever option B has to provide.
I observe Evangelicals repeatedly using god’s will as a justification for their decisions which make no logical sense in the real world.
God does not desire for us to hate other humans because they love differently.
God does not desire for us to hate other humans because they look differently.
God does not desire for us to hate other humans who have different political beliefs.
Own Your Decision
In church-speak, it is often stated by a person facing a life decision that they are taking it to the Lord in prayer.
I personally have heard a pastor say this when faced with leaving one congregation to move to another congregation. Ironically, the new congregation was larger, more financially blessed, and in a more favorable locale.
