Faith: Pain or Pleasure?
Biblical examples of faith never promised a walk down easy street
It may be fashionable to talk about all the ways that becoming Christian can make your life better… but is that promise of easy street sending the wrong message?
Is it setting up people to be tricked into a plastic copy of the real thing? Worse still, is it a bait-and-switch tricking people into thinking they’ve already embraced a faith that is still far from them?
Jesus promised we’d have trouble in this world, didn’t he? And he said that the servant is not better than the master, which (in context) admitted that trouble was coming for the believer.
In sharp contrast to some of today’s ‘Christian Influencers’, Moses really DID ‘have it all’. Given the choice between everything the world has to offer, and the price he’d pay for walking away from that to follow God, it was a no-brainer decision for him. He made his choice.
That decision by Moses is what we’re looking at in this week’s Warriors and Wildmen:
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