God on the road

I am writing this blog not even sure of what I am going to say. Which is rare because I am always full of words. God is good. I have been told in the last couple months that a former youth does not believe that this is true. He struggles with the idea of evil and God allowing it to happen. I talk to him about free will. I ran into this quote by CS Lewis, "Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having." He struggles with how he sees the church treating the LGBTQ community. So he has walked away from his beliefs that God is good. I talk to him about being the change in the church. If the church will ever bridge the gap they need people like him to help show them the love and grace of God. But how we cannot dismiss the truth of scripture. We cannot always consider a church and God to be on the same page. We cannot always let someone in the church let us view God in an unhealthy manner, because God is always good, even though his followers are not. God is good.

I have a number of friends who are separated and in the process of divorce. This saddens me because at some point in their lives they have let sin enter their lives and their heart has been hardened. Some of them have walked away from God and the church during this time, because of the lack of grace they felt from the church. Unfortunately they let someone else take their eyes off of God on the road. Because God is still good.

I am disheartened lately because of the burden God has given me for his people. But I know this burden is not a curse but a blessing. He has given me a Pastor's heart and helping me see things a little more clearer and a little through his own eyes. He sees a world that is hurting and longing for more grace, love, and even truth in their lives. They are longing for someone to care for them like the church has always supposed to have been doing. Obedience is a core issue of the heart. God is longing for hearts of obedience to follow him. People talk about the idea of happiness. But in a lot of the cases that I have discussed they have forsaken the obedience of God for their happiness. God is not always concerned with our happiness but our holiness. If you want fulfillment, obey Christ. If you want JOY, obey Christ. You will never have true freedom in your life until you obey. GOD IS GOOD