Our okay makes all of these stopping points to freedom in Christ.
In a nutshell, our overall stopping point from becoming All In with God is some moral high ground that we'd rather die upon than change to embrace the tenets of love and forgiveness and humility that God says make up his greatest Okay.
When we can hide on some moral ground that is mentioned in the bible, we can enter into our okay and resist true change.
Whatever we chase and embrace is our okay. It is where we stop short on All In with God and declare that we have done enough:
If I chase and embrace making money, tithing my share, I am doing enough with and for God.
If I chase and embrace following the ten commandments, preaching bible tenets from my perch of self-righteousness while pointing out the failures of others, then I am doing enough with and for God.
If I chase and embrace a lifestyle that inserts God enough to be known as a believer but not enough to cost anything, then I am doing enough with and for God.We, as evangelicals, have fashioned an okay that helps us avoid going All In with God.
The litmus test for our okay vs his Okay is the source of power for our soul's generator:
Brokenness and powerlessness, harnessed with God's power, OR
The unharnessed, runaway power of self-sufficiency and our perceived goodness.Nothing is more difficult that admitting that we must get out of our own okay to enter into God's Okay.
It is the only place All In can be discovered and recovered.
Tomorrow: Why go All In?
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