The End of The Line-Part 2
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The End of The Line-Part 2

The Glory Dilemma

Too often people tend to lose sight of God’s involvement in their divine given journey and toward completion began to play god themselves. For humankind, it appears uncomfortable for them to allow God to take credit for their success. Many may feel that God claiming all the credit for himself, is “self-aggrandizement” or God being conceited. Yet the Scriptures state:

“…let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified…” (1Peter 4:11, KJV) “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:20, KJV)”…the multitudes saw it, they marveled, and glorified God…” (Matthew 9:8, KJV) “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me…” (Psalms 50:23, KJV)

Therefore, everything is ultimately for His glory. God’s claim to glory is addressed in the book Visioneering, A. Stanley quoted from a book by J.I. Packer entitled Hot Tub Religion. It says:

“…God aims always to glorify himself is an assertion we at first find hard to believe. Our immediate reaction is an uncomfortable feeling that such an idea is unworthy of God, that self-concern of any sort is incompatible with moral perfection, and in particular with God’s nature as love…If it is right for man to have the glory of god as His goal, can it be wrong for God to have the same goal? For if man can have no higher purpose than God’s glory, how canGod? If it is wrong for man to seek a lesser end than this, it would be wrong for God, too. The reason it cannot be right for man to live for himself, as if he were God, is because he is not God. However, it cannot be wrong for God to seek His own glory simply because He is God.”

We have oftentimes seen community leaders to nationally known people take and claim God’s divine vision as their own. Probably because they desire some claim to fame, attention, or praise. They develop what Stanley calls, “spiritual amnesia” and lose sight of God’s involvement in their journey to completion. They start to take God’s blessings for granted. They start to enjoy notoriety and rewards that come with success then feel indispensable to the vision. They lose sight of God’s involvement in their journey.

If God is kept in the forefront, you will not develop “spiritual amnesia”.

Finishing Well

At the end of a God divine vision is God. When God intervenes, you will find yourself changed. We have seen some of God’s chosen servants finish well. To mention a few, there’s Joyce Meyer, Billy Graham, Benny Hinn, and Andrew Womack.

Each person mentioned above was given a God-ordained vision and remained faithful to the vision that God gave them. Their faithfulness resulted in opportunities to preach to millions of people and to travel to the ends of the earth teaching the gospel and healing people. Like Billy Graham, they too, have impacted millions through their ministry on radio and/or television.

Joyce Meyer in an interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network stated that when she got her divine vision she was nine years old. Her father was molesting her and continued to do so until she left home. She later got married had children then divorced. However, her vision did not die. She held prayer meetings and services in her living room for years then rented a television spot for a short while. For a short time until she realized that she was “the only one speaking during the question and answer show. No one could get a word in edgewise.” She stopped that TV interview show got married again, raised her children but continued with the vision that God had given her.

Now she is a well-known teacher and preacher reaching millions of souls each and every day through her ministry on television She has outreach programs that help people all around the world. She asked the Lord, “Why me?” She was “broken and God changed” her and gave her a vision. She said that she cannot take any “credit for what God has accomplished in her life and through her ministry”.

All the ministers and teachers mentioned above have stated in their teachings on TBN that they have asked God, “Why me?” You too may ask, “Why me?” But why ask when God has promised to always be with you.

The End of The Line, here!

God is always with you. God has promised through scripture to be with us in every circumstance and to never leave us nor forsake us. Therefore, you should keep the faith and believe that whatever vision you are given, if you listen to and follow God’s prompting that you will come out on the other side and completely finish the way God wants you to. You can trust God to do what only He can do for and in you. In the Bible, 2 Corinthians 12:7–10, Paul knew this well:

“And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”

The Lord spoke to Paul and told him, “My grace is sufficient for you.” God made it clear that his strength is perfect in the areas of our human weakness. Paul allowed God to be his strength. So, if God’s grace was sufficient for Paul; it is sufficient for you.