Imperishable Inheritance

My friend wrote a great article on on how many modern Christians proudly declare: "I feel like God is pulling me towards _______ [fill in the blank]." He looked critically at this claim, and he is right. It has become a another un-Biblical slogan in today's Christianity.

So what I'm asking is, is it wrong to live out God's will be being wise, living in righteousness, and being devoted to prayer, fasting, and study? (Gal. 5:16) That's what the Christian life is all about right? This, ‘special revelation' that I'm supposed to have in every decision has become not so special because it becomes some mystical hippy-saying that is now another Christian novelty phrase.¹

Tell me: what happened to trusting in The Creator for everything instead of trusting in ourselves and then trying to prove that God agrees with us? It should come as no suprise as Christianty has become the Synergistic, alter-called, theocentristic, drive-thru Christianity. A faith where theology and the studying of God's word is down played for "unity." Ecumenicism. Here is a comment made by other friend, Lenny Tavernelli, down at SBTS with Nick:

James Montgomery Boice has this to say in "What Makes a Church Evangelical?"

'Not long ago one of my staff gave me a script to be used for an imagined ‘evangelical hotline,' the kind of recorded message one might hear when he or she calls a participating church for psychiatric help. It went like this:

If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are codependent, please ask someone else to press 2. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call. If you are an evangelical, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.

Is that how we are to find guidance for our lives from God? A little voice? Not at all. That is a kind of mysticism. ‘I prayed about it, and God told me to do the following.' In former days a statement like that would have been followed by a more mature believer asking for chapter and verse, meaning, where do you find that in Scripture? We need to get rid of that way of talking and those false claims entirely.

God has given us all the guidance we need in the Bible. So if there is something we want or think we need that is not in the Bible'what job shall I take? where shall I live? Whom shall I marry?'after having prayed for God's providential guidance, we are free to do whatever seems best to us, knowing that God, who cares for us always, will certainly keep us on his path. It does not matter what specific action we take as long as we are obeying God and trying to live a godly life.

That does not mean God does not have a plan for our lives in all these areas. He does. He has a detailed plan for all things, having foreordained ‘whatsoever comes to pass,' as the Westminster Confession of Faith has it. But it does mean that we do not have to know this plan in advance and, indeed, cannot. What we can know and need to know is what God has told us in the Bible' (24-25).

I'm getting more and more fundamental everyday...praise God!