The Drive Through God

copyright Millie Plastaras 1/12/2005


The Drive Through God

Hi, This is St. Peter's Place, may I help you?

Yes, I am in a big hurry, I have some place to go.
I will take an instant healing, and 3 blessings please.

The next customer comes through, saying:
I need for my marriage to be healed, I don't have time
to work on it, or pray, so could you just give me the
marriage blessing, and fix it please?

The next customer is equally unaware when saying:
I need the blessing my neighbor has, could you help
me win the lottery? I need a bigger house,
and cannot make enough money to buy one.

The next woman says God, I got myself in
massive debt, and have spent most of my life
thinking entirely about what I want, would
you help pay off my credit card debt, and
I will promise to go to church every Sunday.

People lining up with the greatest intentions,
the least faith, and almost no relationship with God,
yet expecting instant gratification when they pray.
Suddenly God is the "fix it" man.

We do not have to do anything on our part, it is all His job.

Where did people get this concept of God?

Could it be from the pulpit of a church
that forgot we are to teach the gospel
of Christ above all else?

Could it be from people neglecting God's word
and making up their own God?

While I was watching a famous newscaster tonight,
He was talking about his concept of God. A God who
would forgive everyone, because He was merciful.

A God who never got angry, who never judged,
but only loved people. A God who never did a
trial after we die, but fulfills nebulous needs while
we are alive. A God we don't need to have a
dedicated or holy, righteous relationship with.
A God of convenience. A God of people's own making
to suit whatever lifestyle they choose to live.

This is the god the one world religion would
want people to believe in, a nebulous feel good
god with no power or concept of sin.

This is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

This is what the world is saying nowadays.
Oh I will take the God that never judges, so I can
sleep with everyone in town, or smoke and drink
or do drugs, but God will still love me.
I will never have to confess sin, because God is merciful.

I don't need to go to church, I don't need to
change, I don't need to read an old fashioned,
irrelevant old book like the Bible. God will love
me anyway.

A drive through God.
Where do people come up with this stuff?

My friends, this is why we have a Bible.

1. It tells us who God is.

2. It tells us what He expects from us.

3. It tells what happens to those who disobey.

4. It tells how to find salvation through Jesus Christ.

The Bible says Jesus is the truth, the life, and the way,
there is no other way to God, except through
redemption in Jesus Christ.

I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes
to the Father God, except through me. John 14:6

This means we have to be proactive. We have to:

1. Recognize we are a sinner in need of salvation.

2. Recognize Jesus died for those sins, and to receive
His salvation we must take certain steps.

3. Confess our sins to God, ask forgiveness of our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
We have to truly mean this.

4. When we repent of our sins, it means we leave them behind,
we walk away from them, we get into the word, and live as
Jesus taught. New life, new habits, new transformed thinking.

We make a conscious effort to change, and ask
God to help us change the things we cannot, so we
can be right before Him. Forgiven, renewed
by the blood of the Lamb of God.

There is no other way! We cannot pick and choose
the parts of the Bible we like or don't like or agree with or
don't agree with. We cannot tell God who to be, or what His
laws and concepts should be.

It is like this. We must accept Him for who He is,
we must live righteously before Him, by accepting
His son, and repenting of our sins, and then walking
right by reading His word, praying and living a holy life.

Anything else, is straying from the truth. You can make up all
the thoughts about God you want, the newscaster can justify his
lifestyle by being in denial about God, the person who has strong
addictions will deny God to justify his sin. The person steeped
in sexual sin or perversion will try to justify a kind, all loving God,
to leave out any part of the scripture that might convict them of their sins.

Sin is a reality. God is not only a merciful God, but
a God of judgment. Someday we will all face
him and account for every word and deed.

Have you faced this reality?

No decision or concept is more important for
you to realize in your lifetime!

The drive through thing won't work. If you want a relationship with God, there is one way. The right way, through Jesus Christ. Any other way leads to eternal death.

Now that you have been told, there is no excuse. Pass this to others, so they may know that there is no excuse that will stand before God's all knowing judgment and wisdom. He sees all, knows all, knows every where you have been, every thought you have had, every deed you have done. Everything that is done in darkness will be bought into light.

Where you will stand in that light? Can you stand the glare of light
that exposes the truth about you and your inner thoughts and spirit?

There is only one way.

You are either for God or against Him.
You are either born again by his precious
blood, or you have walked away from the salvation
Jesus Christ bought upon the cross.

For God's holy wrath and indignation are revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who in their wickedness
repress and hinder the truth and make it inoperative.
For that which is known about God is EVIDENT
to them, and made plain in their inner
consciousness, because God Himself has shown
it to them!
For ever since the creation of the world His
invisible nature and attributes, that is his eternal
power and divinity have been made intelligible
and clearly discernible in and through the
things that have been made -- His handiworks.
So men are without excuse - altogether without
any defense or justification.
Romans 1:19-21

Without Christ, we cannot receive forgiveness
of our sins or be justified before God.

Make that decision my dear friend, God is waiting
for you and loves you dearly, and longs for you
to be cleansed from sin, and have a new life in Christ.

Remember
Only one life, will soon be past
Only what is done for Christ will last.