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Religions > Bible |
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"Victor F. Antoine" |
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09 Apr 2006 10:55:17 PM |
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DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY APRIL 9, 2006; Karma |
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DAILY DEVOTIONAL SUNDAY APRIL 9, 2006
( Genesis 1:11, Galatians 6:7-9 )
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Devotional. Thank you!
Is there such a thing as KARMA? Karma originated from the false Hindu
religion and has been adopted by other false religions like Buddhism and the
various New Age philosophies. It literally means deed or act, and more
broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect that governs all
life. The basic teaching of karma is that for every event that occurs,
there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and
this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant depending on whether the
first event was pleasant or unpleasant. Karma is a philosophy that has NO
basis in truth and to be perfectly blunt, is a load of cow manure.
I have told you over and over how satan is the great perverter. Satan takes
the perfect things of God and perverts them. He takes the truth of God and
turns it into a lie. The TRUTH from God's Word where the perverted lie of
karma comes from is the law of sowing and reaping. We first read about it
in Genesis 1:11. The foundation of the law of sowing and reaping was in
agriculture. You plant seed into the ground, and in time that seed will
produce a crop. This law of sowing and reaping also translates into our
spiritual lives as well. The key passage is from Paul's letter to the
church at Galatia where he tells them, "The one who sows to please his
sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to
please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life (Galatians 6:8
NIV).
I share with you often how our rebellion to God brings consequences and our
obedience brings blessings. When we choose to live our lives in
disobedience to God's Word, when we choose to sin, we are then left to deal
with the consequences of our sinful choices. God is not going to bless your
sin. However, when we choose to live our lives in obedience to God's Word,
when we choose to obey Him, we reap the blessings of God in our life. It is
God's good pleasure to bless His children, He loves to bless us and it is
our obedience that unlocks the blessings of God in our lives. That my
freind is NOT karma, it is God allowing the consequences of our sinful
choices and the blessings of our obedient choices to occur.
The myth of karma is an attempt to explain what happens to us during our
life APART from God. In this perverted lie from satan, God is not part of
the process. That fact alone exposes this false philosophy since NOTHING
happens in your life, in my life, in this world apart from God. God did not
just create the world and then decide to go take a walk and come back and
check on things later to see how they were progressing. GOD HAS A PLAN AND
PURPOSE FOR EVERYTHING AND NOTHING HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF THAT PLAN AND PURPOSE.
This, of course, raises the question of why do we have all of the evil and
horrible things that happen in this world and in people's lives every day.
As we have discussed in the past, the evil in this world stems from the
hearts of men living their lives in rebellion to God. God has permitted the
evil and sin in this world for these few years in His desire to see all men
come to repentance and that none be lost. We know from reading the end of
the Book, there is coming a day very soon when God will step in and wipe
away this world as we know it and all sin and evil will cease to exist.
One of the key passages in the Bible to understanding the mind God is found
in Isaiah 55:8 and 9, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, declares the LORD . As the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts." What God is saying is to quit trying to get into His head
because you can't. We simply do not have the ability to know or even begin
to comprehend the mind of God. The fact is, there is no place in the Bible
that says we are supposed to.
As humans, we have this insatiable desire to know "why," and the fact is
there are times in our life when we will not get the answer to that
question. These are the times when our faith in God must become real and
while we don't know "why," God has a plan and purpose for everything and we
have to trust Him. The interesting thing I see in my life and the lives of
others is that we never ask God "why" when good things happen to us, only
the bad things. Take a moment and think on that one with me. When was the
last time something wonderful happened in your life and you asked God "why?"
Probably never. It is almost exclusively when the tragic things happen to
us that we are asking God "why?"
I love you and care about you so much. There is no such thing as karma. It
is a philosophy born out of the false religions to try and explain the
things that happen in our life and is nothing more than a perversion of
God's law of sowing and reaping. Let me tell you something else that
doesn't exist, and that is LUCK. I know I am bursting many bubbles today
but luck is a perverted concept of chance that doesn't exist so take that
word out of your vocabulary. The reason karma and luck don't exist is that
they operate apart from God and NOTHING happens apart from God! There is
nothing that happens in your life apart from God and that is why we are
totally dependent upon Him.
I will be praying for you today. Praying for the Lord to keep you focused
on the fact that in this life, God is on His throne at all times. He
doesn't need to take bathroom breaks, He doesn't need to leave to fix a
sandwich, He doesn't need to take a nap, OUR GOD NEVER SLEEPS NOR SLUMBERS
AND HE IS ON HIS THRONE AT ALL TIMES!!! Nothing in this world or in your
life happens apart from God allowing it to happen. God allows the
consequences you have to deal with from your choices made in rebellion to
Him, just like He blesses you for your obedience. That is NOT karma, it is
God's law of sowing and reaping found in His Word.
In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller
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