Where was God?

I met a man today and we began to talk about God (my favorite topic to discuss). smile emoticon He said that he believed in God. I expected a common deistic/Christian Cameroonian explanation, however, he went on to tell me that about 5 years ago he went through a period when he did not believe in God. His daughter was brutally murdered, and he started asking himself, “Where was God when my daughter was killed?” He told me his pastor came to his home and tried to console him and the family. The admittedly bitter man asked his pastor, “Where was God when those men murdered my daughter?” The pastor responded, “God was in the same place He was when men brutally murdered His only begotten Son.” I was in awe and immediately thought of Rom 8:31-32 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” The man went on to say that he realized that day that he was a church-goer but not a child of God. He said he gave his life to Christ that day and he has never “moved his faith from God since that day.” What a testimony!

Ordination

What a joy to be on the ordination counsel this morning of three men who I had the privilege of teaching for 3 years in the Fundamental Bible Institute of Sabga. Praise the Lord for the testimonies and families of Pastor Ernest, Pastor Chrysantus and Pastor Godfred. You men are a blessing and sharpening iron to me!

God's Will for all Believers

In a world with more than a billion people who have never heard of Christ, and billions who have yet to hear a compassionate presentation of the Gospel…”it makes little sense for us to sit over here asking, ‘What do you want me to do, God?’ The answer is clear. The will of God is for you and me to give our lives urgently and recklessly to making the gospel and the glory of God known among all peoples…
The question, therefore, is not ‘Can we find God’s will?’ The question is ‘Will we obey God’s will?’ Will we refuse to sit back and wait for some tingly feeling to go down our spines before we rise up and do what we have already been commanded to do? 
Will we risk everything – our comfort, our possessions, our safety, our security, our very lives – to make the gospel known…?” (Radical, by David Platt, 160)

Practice What You Preach

True Story: I was searching for a book written by Jonathan Edwards in Amazon Kindle books and I came across a book entitled, Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing In Light of God's Everything. Sounds like a good book, but I burst out laughing when I noticed the author is "Anonymous." smile emoticon Nice. Well done, author.