God Has Many Ways to Do Things (TMF:1144)

Thursday, June 06, 2019
Peace to Live By: God Has Many Ways to Do Things (TMF:1144) - Daniel Litton
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       Most of the time when we are thinking negatively about someone else or another ministry, we are just jealous of whatever it is. But, if we do have a legitimate concern, which is rare, we typically go ahead and criticize and speak negatively before we find out if our assumption is correct or incorrect. A problem for us is that we often like to criticize others who do things differently than we do. Remember, with God there are many ways to doing things, and all of his ways are correct in his eyes. Like, there are many ways to share the Gospel, for instance. Often, though, we think that if someone doesn’t do things how ‘we’ think they should do it, then the person or ministry is in fact in the wrong. And then sometimes we feel it is our job to go and correct that person ‘we feel’ is in the wrong. Satan can have great victories in this area if we let him. He can get us to criticize others, and be a bother and hurt to them, when that’s not God’s will at all. The Bible tells us to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11, ESV) in the body of Christ.