The World According To Chris Brewer

I was lurking over on Jude 2, a Christian forum I am a member of, and someone there posted the ultimate Scripture that single-handedly shoots down the popular belief that it’s always God’s will to heal, prosper us financially, yada yada blah blah bullcrap (see Word of Faith). The reason I am so against this philosophy is that whenever I get sick, there is always someone I know (and it’s a different person almost each time) telling me that there must be something wrong with my faith in God since I’m not getting healed. That is ridiculous. If there is truly something wrong with my faith, how come it is not affecting my walk with Christ day by day, and a physical sickness is the only evidence of my faith gone awry?

Also people who believe this Word of Faith stuff believe that our faith forces God to do stuff. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The Scripture I will reference below says it all.

Here’s the Scripture….found in Daniel chapter 4, verse 35. This is translated from the New American Standard Bible.

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’

And just for good measure, the version I read…the Message.

Life on this earth doesn’t add up to much, but God’s heavenly army keeps everything going. No one can interrupt his work, no one can call his rule into question.

Bam. There’s no arguing with that. After reading this, I have no clue why some people believe the way they do.