Pastor John,
I’m thinking this morning that many in the world are persuaded to take the “easy street” and claim they are a victim of this life, thereby throwing off responsibility for their own actions. But I remember not long ago hearing brother Bennie Hinn say that Brother Oral Roberts told him, “if you go to this city to preach, you will be killed. And I [the LORD] will hold you responsible for dying.” (I am paraphrasing but that was most definitely the message).
In a world where it has become as normal as breathing to proclaim victimhood, the Spirit of the Lord, I think, is asking questions such as, “Why don’t you know you are being lied to?” “Why don’t you know where to be when the time comes?” The spirit of God in us is real, and it knows how to live this life, and according to brother Benny Hinn’s testimony, God is holding us responsible to follow it.
Jerry