Beaty’s Blog

I have been listening to a lecture series on Francis Schaeffer.  I finished up the first set of lectures which is about 18hrs. or so.  I am blown away by the practical faith that him and his wife, Edith, had.  I am also more convinced than ever that those which God chooses to do the mightiest works of all, will also be called to give the greatest sacrifice of all.  On would think that God pours out financial and material blessings on those which he calls to do great works.  This is simply not the case.  In many ways Christianity is the way of pain.  If my Lord suffered and all of his earliest followers did also, what else should we expect.  A teacher once told me that God has no hesitation in dragging his prophets through mud.  If you read this, please for Jesus’ sake do not watch so called Christian television. There is way more bad than good.  I have never heard a message on the way of suffering on TV.  It is always the formula:  a(something you give) + B (some bogus spiritual law) = Health, Wealth, and Wisdom.  If that was the case that we should probably join another faith because this message sure didn’t seem to work for the primary writer of the New Testament, Paul, let alone our God, Jesus.   The Schaeffers prayed that they would have to be totally dependent on God and He blessed them in such a way that all of their needs, direction, comfort, and future were.  The anxiety and suffering that they undertook left no room for trust in anything other but him. May God Bless me in the same way.