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As followers of Christ, we often confuse inaction with being patient with the Lord.
Sol Chung explains active faith, urging believers to act and pray, emphasizing free will and not mistaking every event as a sign from God.
Key Takeaways
- Faith requires both prayer and proactive effort.
- Not every event or circumstance is a divine sign.
- God grants free will and expects believers to make decisions responsibly.
- The Bible is the foundational guide for understanding God's will.
- Rejection can be a form of God's protection.
Summary
- Active faith involves relying on God's promises while taking tangible actions.
- Faith is not just about waiting passively but working diligently alongside prayer.
- The analogy of chasing the bus illustrates the need to both pray and act with urgency.
- Missing an opportunity may indicate God's protection through rejection.
- Believers should not expect God to hand everything to them without effort.
- Free will is given by God to make decisions, not to wait for constant signs.
- The Bible serves as the ultimate guide for living a faithful life.
- Using God as an excuse for laziness or inaction is discouraged.
- A fruitful life requires effort, challenges, and alignment with God's will.
- God is still working in believers’ lives, encouraging continuous pursuit of purpose.
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And I can continue to tell you, just do it, but what's the point when you've already heard that before?
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But what I want to tell you is a story on active faith.
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And if you don't know active faith, it is being in a state of constantly relying on God's promises, usually doing trials, and the most important part is to produce tangible results.
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I'm not telling you to stay in active faith because it buys you a ticket to heaven, I'm saying that life gets better when you obey God, when you serve God and you love God.
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My favorite analogy on active faith of all time is the analogy of chasing the bus.
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Where you pray to catch the bus and you run as fast as you can.
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But you can't pray to catch the bus and then stroll down the street.
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You have to pray to catch the bus, run as fast as you can.
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Because if you miss the bus, then you will know that it's not your bus.
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But if you don't run, that could have been your bus, but if you don't pray, that still could have been your bus.
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So do both, and if you don't get it, then you will know that rejection is God's protection.
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God didn't want you to have it and that's okay.
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I think it all stems from the quote, pray as if everything depended on God, work as if everything depended on you.
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And I have to say because I care.
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But if you think that waiting for the Lord to just drop everything into your hands and feed you everything in your life, I'm sorry to say but that's just wrong.
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That is not the way to success and will never be the best way to live your life.
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Because we call that robots and I personally haven't seen any happy robots.
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The truth is that you work and you pray, you don't bury your talents, you don't take your you take your talents and you multiply them and God will bless you with it.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you to do things without asking or without praying.
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I would never ask you to do that.
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But at the same time, don't just sit there and live a life that is monotonous and unchanging.
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A fruitful life never called for an easy one.
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If there's one thing you remember today, remember this, that not everything is a sign from God.
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That not everything needs a sign from God.
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That is why we're given free will in the first place.
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If you need an exact step-by-step instruction from God to do everything, what is the point of him giving us free will?
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Instead, he gives you free will and trusts you that you would come to him and ask him and willfully align yourself to him.
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If you wanted a user manual to your flesh, to your spirit, you already had one, it's called the Bible.
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So don't use God as an excuse for laziness or incompetency or just a simple lack of action.
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But instead, you find that bus that God wants you to take and don't stop running for it.
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Because God is not done with you yet, and that is my prayer for you today.
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In Jesus name I pray, amen.
Topics:active faithfaith and actionGod's signsfree willChristian livingprayer and workBible guidancespiritual growthGod's protectionSol Chung
