RIGHT PERSPECTIVE

Dallas Willard (1935-2013) professor and author wrote:

“God gives us the ability to improve the world. No good will come of either blaming God for our ills or sitting around waiting for God to do what we ought to have the sense and ambition enough to accomplish for ourselves. God has put the natural abilities and means at our disposal with which to make this world a decent and pleasant place to live. This is precisely the reason why he will hold us responsible for failing at the task. And all those who charge God with the evil of this world lay themselves open to the charge of insincerity unless they are doing all within their power to dispel the evil of this world.”

‘Sitting around waiting for God’ often comes by indecision, maybe intentional indecision. We should try to stay on one side of the road or the other, and not the middle of the road. Only people painting the white line should be in the middle of the road. This might come from what Dr. Joan Borysenko, popular author said: “What a paradox…the things you dislike the most succeed in taking up the majority of your mental time.”

A right perspective is to stop bitching about the evil in the world and do good things to change it… Kingdom good. The Good News.

“Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” Jesus