In my last Blog, I wrote, “Sometimes you have to hold one truth in one hand, and an opposing truth in the other hand, and hold them both in tension without messing up either one.” I wrote about two truths: man’s responsibility and God’s sovereignty. Some people thought I was messing with the sovereignty of God. I believe in the absolute sovereignty of God, but I also believe that every believer will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ and be held accountable for what they have done or not done with their life, and that they will not be able to use their belief in God’s sovereignty as an excuse for doing little with their life. I can hold two truths that seem to oppose each other without messing up either one. Many people cannot; they think that if they believe one doctrine is valid, they must deny the other. Most believers don’t pray much because they believe that God, in His sovereignty, will do what He will do, and our prayers don’t change anything. That apathy to prayer resulted from being unable to hold two doctrines in balance without messing up either one. Many solid believers don’t witness because God will save who He will, and what we do doesn’t change anything. There are a lot of people who are solid believers who go to church faithfully but bear very little fruit for God. I have heard words from many like them: “God is God, He is in charge, He is going to accomplish all His good will, and He doesn’t need us.”
In all my years of Pastoring, I have never met a person who prays a lot, witnesses every chance he gets, and works like a dog to change his world because he thinks God is not in control, is doing nothing, and has left everything up to us. Every solid servant of Christ I know believes in the God of the Bible, and that belief motivates them to action, not to apathy.