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When my daughter, Joy, was still a child, she had a playmate who was always changing the rules of whatever games they were playing. And she always changed the rules to her advantage so, of course, she always won. She’s a grown woman today, and I imagine she’s still doing the same.
Oopsism people do that. Oops, they think, I don’t like the way this is working out so I think I’ll change the rules. Moral rules. Financial rules. Political rules. Any rules. That way, the person doesn’t have to change, the rules have been changed instead.
If there is a cure for Oopsism it is taking God seriously.
It is not casually thinking after an accident or an incident, well, there’s nothing I can do about it. And besides it wasn’t my fault. Fate is against me…. My fellowman is against me…. My human nature is against me. . . People just don’t understand me.
No, if there is a cure for Oopsism it is seeking God with the same intensity that the unbeliever denies Him.
It is certainly not committing the ultimate sin of indifference. It is rather letting Christ make a difference.
It is admitting with heart, mind and soul that Christianity needs moral giants, not pigmies who squirm a little and then go on their merry way.
A governor named Felix once said to the Apostle Paul, “When I have a convenient season I will call for thee.”
But it never was convenient to call for Paul. It never was convenient to learn more about Christ and then put Christ’s teaching into practice. “Oops,” said Felix, “I meant to do something about it, but I never got around to it.”
The devil loves that kind of response. When human beings use the excuse that something was inconvenient and that’s why they didn’t do it, the devil literally dances a jig. Indeed, more good deeds and noble ideas have died on the vine because of this one excuse than almost any other reason that can be named.
It is inconvenient to care.
It is inconvenient to accept blame.
It is inconvenient to have to do something about something.
Saying oops is easier and often much more convenient. And “Oops! I made a boo boo,” really doesn’t sound nearly as bad as, “I just committed a sin.”
What if Joseph of Arimathea had not gone to Pontius Pilate and begged the body of Jesus – because of the inconvenience. And instead had later said, “Oops, there I go again with my procrastination.”
What if Paul had not gone out on his missionary journey because of the inconvenience and had instead later said, “Oops there I go again with my lack of resolve.”
What if Jesus, with all of His humanity side showing, had stayed in Nazareth instead of moving out to preach and had later said, “Oops, there I go again ignoring God’s will.”
Remember the Priest and the Levite who passed by the wounded man because, after all, it was inconvenient to stop and help him?
I always tell new Christians that if they are looking for a convenient faith, then look somewhere else besides Christianity.
There is nothing convenient about a faith that tells us to love our enemies, to control our anger, to give our money, to practice humility and perform the inconvenient.
God did not give us a spirit that makes us afraid but a spirit of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NCV)
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Jan 12 WHAT IS SO DIFFERENT ABOUT STARS?
DEC 29 HAVE YOU GRADED YOUR VALUE SYSTEM RECENTLY?
Dec 20 DO YOU TOLERATE TOLERANCE?
Dec 17 BE A REACHABLE!
Dec 10 TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND PUNT
Dec 3 GOD HAD A DREAM
Dec 1…THE SECRET POWER OF THE SECOND MILE
NOV 25…ARE YOU A SPIRITUAL ANOREXIC? ARE YOU READY WITH READINESS?
Nov 11 LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FOREVER,
Nov 4…AN UNEXPECTED HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS
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