Generation Axis

This Post comes from a good friend of mine, Tyler. I stole this from his blog at www.tylermedina.wordpress.com, but I’m sure he won’t care. -Noah

Cops are Agents of Faith

No seriously, think about it. Whenever someone is stopped by a cop, the cop can instantly cause someone to believe that there is a God, or leave them in the same stagnant state of faith they were in before their encounter…

Example: The other day as me and my wife were driving home we were talking about some of the things God was up to in our church. Celebrating the wins and talking about the future. As this deep conversation was taking place, my foot was slowly becoming heavier on the gas pedal. I didn’t notice but the sheriff on the side of the road did. As we began to pull over for the usual “license and registration” I told God kind of jokingly “now Lord, you know we were talking about the good things of You, could you take care of this one for us?” Now you might smile because you might have prayed those same prayers too…

Have you seen someone when they didn’t get the ticket? Maybe you/they have said “Hallelujah” or even a “thank you God,” (in the same shallow way a rapper gets an award for Best Album and thanks God and then his mother) and faith is restored again. Or if you/they get the ticket, the prayers sadly weren’t answered and return to having a bad night.

Now let’s cut right to it. Life happens. If you believe there is a God who controls the police’s decisions to give tickets as well as created the universe, or you don’t believe in anything; life happens. And should you choose to follow this man named Jesus, He is looking for you to believe in Him in the midst of life happening. He is looking for people that despite recession, famine, pain, trials, and yes…tickets, will still trust Him and that He is good.

In the Bible you read of the story of a boy named Joseph. Joseph dreamed as a child that he would one day be chosen to do something great, but sadly his brothers thought otherwise. They were going to kill him because of his dreams, but instead threw him in a well and sold him to traveling peddlers. He was then framed for adultery and then thrust into prison only to be forgotten. The Bible continually mentions that in every state that Joseph was in, “the Lord was with Joseph,” and blessed everything he did. Joseph never gave up on God. Joseph understood that life happens, and even behind bars God was still good.

Joseph could have easily gave up, got bitter against his brothers (kind of like what happens in the church), got upset because he was wrongly accused while trying to do the right thing (because bad things aren’t supposed to happen to good people right?), or gave up at the bottom of a prison cell…

But he didn’t…
Neither should we..

We shouldn’t let our situations dictate wether we have faith in God or not. But in the end let it be said that no matter what we went through, we still believed. God was good when the cop let us go, and God was good when the cop gave us the ticket for the rolling stop.

So if things get hard. If money runs tight.. When you DO get the ticket..When LIFE happens…

Don’t lose faith.
Keep going… Let your story say that whatever state you were in, “The Lord was with (insert your name here)”

*Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

- and we didn’t get the ticket.. Hallelujah