Seeking Easy Solutions

We live in a time and place where people work harder to find easy solutions than they work on simply doing what is right. I drive along the highway and see so many signs that are lawyers looking to get you the most possible money in an accident or the like. Now some may really need that help and have been truly wronged, but many just see dollar signs and are looking for ways to cash in. I’ve seen some that have done something wrong, and instead of ‘fessing up, they create an elaborate lie to explain away what happened. We see those in Minnesota that appear to have been taking advantage of many of its people by stealing billions of dollars (fraud). Always looking for the easy solution and hoping never to get caught. We can also be guilty of that in our own walk with God. We try to come up with the solutions by our own ability instead of seeking God’s direction. We want to see someone healed? We look to Doctors. We want to be successful? We seek earthly riches. It is amazing the length people are willing to go to achieve what they want instead of asking God. I ran across a great quote, “The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor”. We try to seek out the right program to attract more people. We try to imitate other big or successful churches rather than imitate the One who can truly build a church that is life changing. The real solution, and often the easiest solution, is to fall on our knees before God seeking His face and His direction. If I build a beautiful large and ornate church, but the Holy Spirit is not present at the heart of it, it might end up being a great country club. If I am led by God to start a small church in our home, even if it never grows into a mega-church, I know it will achieve what God intends. Lives will be changed, hearts will be surrendered to God, and God’s word will get planted in the hearts of the listeners. A few people fully surrendered to God can accomplish more than a mega-church that is operating off of earthly principals. Let us be praying together for God to open our eyes and our heart to His leading. Pray that God would draw many to Himself and that He would lead us according to His will! Father, In Your prayer, we pray, “Thy will be done...” and yet we often don’t live that out. Show us how we can declare Your praise. Amen