Yesterday we finished Lot’s story in our series on Broken Dreams. I can honestly say it was one of the heaviest messages I’ve preached. The story is the most bizarre in scripture but the principles that it teaches are the kind that just cut to the bone.
And God intersected my life with Francis Chan’s question “Has your relationship with God changed the way you lived?” last week. I think specifically for that message.
Broken fixes to our broken dreams often end up worse than the broken dream itself.
Lukewarm living for God has the same end result as outright defiance.
Lukewarm living makes us a joke with both are “friends” and our enemies.
We all eventually get what we really want. Lot’s wife really wanted to go back to Sodom, so God gave that to her. Lot really didn’t want to go back to God or Abraham, that’s what he got as well.
When we try to ‘fix’ our broken dreams instead of waiting on God, it’s a statement of how little we trust Him and that what He has for us on the other side of the door is bigger, better, and deeper than what we have on this side.
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‘Lukewarm living for God has the same end result as outright defiance.’
Absolutely, though it may mean drifting toward the same place place incrementally over a long time, even many years. First Lot split with Abram, then pitched his tents near Sodom and then moved in. I posted on this recently and was struck by how widespread this is.
Pastor English God is at work in your life. I sense you must be reading and studying the word of God very closely. I Praise God that you feel God at work in your series of messages.