WRESTLING WITH DISAPPOINTMENTS (19 OF 34)
Wrestling with Disappointments (19 of 34)
Series: Acts
Robert Dawson
Acts 12
James Merritt in a sermon he preached on the sovereignty of God told this story about a cowboy who needed some health insurance. He made an appointment with a local insurance agent. The agent was reviewing the paperwork and the cowboy’s answers to the questionnaire and found his answers to be somewhat conflicting.
On one question the cowboy had been asked if he had experienced any accidents over the previous year to which he answered no but on medical treatment received he indicated treatment for being kicked in the head by a horse and being bitten by a rattlesnake. The agent asked about this discrepancy. He said, “Sir, you put down that you did not have any accidents this last year and yet you were kicked by a horse and bitten by a rattlesnake so how can you say there were no accidents?” The Cowboy replied, “Those were not accidents. They did it on purpose.”
If you think about it, in one sense, there are no accidents. Whether good or bad the situations we face in life are opportunities for us to experience God in a new way. Someone put it this way,
“There are no accidents in life only appointments and our disappointments are often times God’s appointments.”
Here in Acts 12 the church once again faces some major disappointments and setbacks. As we look at what happens and wrestle with some questions that come to our heart and mind we will discover that disappointments are His appointments.
What we find in this passage today is a call to trust in God’s sovereignty - especially when we don’t understand exactly how He is working.
ACTS 12.1-18
As we think about this passage today I want us to learn one of the more difficult and challenging lessons of faith. As I studied this passage two thoughts kept coming to mind - thoughts I had to reconcile as much as humanly possible in my own mind.
LIFE IS NOT EASY OR FAIR BUT GOD IS STILL SOVEREIGN
Life for these ...
Series: Acts
Robert Dawson
Acts 12
James Merritt in a sermon he preached on the sovereignty of God told this story about a cowboy who needed some health insurance. He made an appointment with a local insurance agent. The agent was reviewing the paperwork and the cowboy’s answers to the questionnaire and found his answers to be somewhat conflicting.
On one question the cowboy had been asked if he had experienced any accidents over the previous year to which he answered no but on medical treatment received he indicated treatment for being kicked in the head by a horse and being bitten by a rattlesnake. The agent asked about this discrepancy. He said, “Sir, you put down that you did not have any accidents this last year and yet you were kicked by a horse and bitten by a rattlesnake so how can you say there were no accidents?” The Cowboy replied, “Those were not accidents. They did it on purpose.”
If you think about it, in one sense, there are no accidents. Whether good or bad the situations we face in life are opportunities for us to experience God in a new way. Someone put it this way,
“There are no accidents in life only appointments and our disappointments are often times God’s appointments.”
Here in Acts 12 the church once again faces some major disappointments and setbacks. As we look at what happens and wrestle with some questions that come to our heart and mind we will discover that disappointments are His appointments.
What we find in this passage today is a call to trust in God’s sovereignty - especially when we don’t understand exactly how He is working.
ACTS 12.1-18
As we think about this passage today I want us to learn one of the more difficult and challenging lessons of faith. As I studied this passage two thoughts kept coming to mind - thoughts I had to reconcile as much as humanly possible in my own mind.
LIFE IS NOT EASY OR FAIR BUT GOD IS STILL SOVEREIGN
Life for these ...
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