I saw this posted on Facebook this morning. In my opinion this is one of the most
misleading and, yes, even foolish quotes I’ve ever heard. The person who posted it is a friend of mine
and I love her, but I think she didn’t really get the full impact. Again in my opinion, this is just another
example of how easily we Christians are deceived. I know a lot of the people who hit the “like”
button and I just simply believe they took the post at face value, maybe just skimmed through it and it sounded good, and didn’t really
concentrate on it. At first glance to
some, this seems like a great read. For
me it wasn’t.
"We shouldn't be so up and down. There
ought to be consistency. We should be the same all the time, because if we're
walking with Jesus, He's 'the same yesterday, today, and forever' (Hebrews
13:8). If we're up sometimes and down other times, it's because sometimes we're
trusting Jesus and other times we're walking in our own flesh. WE OUGHT TO BE
SUPERNATURALLY NATURAL. The same power that raised Christ from the dead is in
us at all times (Ephesians 1:19-20). It never fluctuates." ~ Andrew
Wommack "Living in God's Best"
Is there a Christian on earth that doesn’t on occasion walk
in the flesh? How about those of us who
go for that second piece of cake when we know we shouldn’t? How about those who give in to premarital or
extramarital sex? And, yes, that happens
to some Christians. They may not be very
strong Christians but they’re Christians nonetheless. All of us give in to temptation, which Jesus
never did. Mr. Wommack is asking me to
BE Jesus, not be LIKE Jesus. There’s a
great difference.
And speaking of Jesus, how about Him? He cried when he was at the tomb of Lazarus…and He knew He was going to raise him! Doesn’t sound like a very “up” moment. How about when He was in the Garden of
Gethsemane? That was not a very “up”
moment for Him. He was grieving. How can you grieve to the point of sweating drops of blood and be “up” at the same
time? If it was possible for anyone, it
would have been possible for Him, but it doesn't appear that way when you read this account in the Bible. Probably not an “up” moment for
Him.
And what about being “supernaturally natural?” It is not natural…or even human…for someone
to be “up” all the time. Even a Christian. I guarantee you
that if you know someone who is “up” every time you see them, they’re having a “down”
moment sometimes when they’re alone. One
of our emotions is sadness. Am I to believe
that there is a Christian who has never been sad?
Anyway, here is my response to her post. Oddly, one of the people who first made a
positive comment on the post hit the “like” button on my response. Maybe my response made her reread the post
and come to a different conclusion.
However, we are humans and this is just not
going to happen. A person going through something devastating (divorce,
sickness, etc.) is going to have a down moment or two although they know Jesus
hasn’t left them. Jesus also asked us to be perfect as He is perfect and holy
as He is Holy but we all know that’s not going to happen on this earth. I
appreciate the thought but it is a crushing burden for anyone to expect that of
me. And, really, if you know me you know I’m usually “up” but it’s just not
that way every moment of every day. I wish it were, but Jesus is always there
in those moments.
