A Great Deception

Many people live in this great deception: they take it for granted that they would like to do all God’s will, except that they are so weak and it is so very difficult that they are excused from doing it—at least to a great extent.

However, the truth of the matter is completely different; namely, that when they have to make a decision, they do not want to do God’s will!!! This is usually the case with some people, especially in one or two or several areas.

Seeing that a person does not want to do as the Word says, the rest falls away by itself. Then they cannot possibly fight the fight of faith in order to carry out God’s will or be diligent to do it, as the Scriptures exhort us to. People are not diligent to do something they do not want to do, are they?

When a person does not want to do all God’s will, he does not have God’s promise of His strong help and support either, for it is written that He will “strongly support those whose heart is completely His.” 2 Chron. 16:9. A person’s heart is not completely with Him if he does not want to do all His will.

Some people do not want to live modestly; others do not want to submit; others do not want to be quiet and meek; still others do not want to have more children; others do not want to share their money in the full, scriptural sense; and some people do not want to do one thing or another, or the third or fourth thing. There is no end to everything that some people do not want. And yet they can still imagine that they want to do all God’s will. Then they are in a deep sleep and ought to take these words to heart: Awake, you who are sleeping, and sin not!

Elias Aslaksen