GOOD THINGS CAN ALSO BLINDSIDE

REFERENCE TEXT: LUKE 14:10-25

‘I must go and see my new field’ , ‘I must go and examine my new set of oxen’, ‘I have married a wife’: while these are all good things, and marker of progress in some sense, they were classified as “excuses” in the Gospel text we read. Why? Because they took focus away from the wedding invitation.

It doesn’t take bad things to alter one’s focus, good things can do the same. Interestingly, the enemy has realized that the average believer is now adept at identifying “bad things” hence the approach has changed. Now, good things abound: ‘good jobs with hefty salaries, great personal relationships, valuable assets’ – the sad reality is that these seemingly good things have become the strongest of distractors.

Consequently, the wedding invitation, which was  accepted ahead of time, no longer appeared to be that important any more. In other words, not every “open door’ is a blessing – some successes are intended to steer you even further away from God. They will be so well packaged that you won’t even realise. It is only later you will recount the cost and realize that what you thought was gain, was actually a big loss.

“Not every open door is an invitation to enter because even the prison has doors”.

#sly