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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

David Wright

God’s Will My Way

General Stanley McChrystal, you may remember that name, the top U.S.

Commander in Afghanistan, decided he'd had enough.

He was going to take matters into his own hands.

So he made it quite evident in a Rolling Stones article published this, well, several, I guess it was the summer of 2010.

It was entitled The Runaway General, underscored by this tag.

Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy, the wimps in the White House.

In the article, he said President Obama was uncomfortable, intimidated, and in top-level Pentagon meetings.

He called meeting with Obama as impersonal, photo-ops, in which the President didn't know who he was.

He mocked Vice President Joe Biden as well.

He called the US National Security Advisor, Jim Jones, a clown.

He belittled US Special Representative to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrook, as well as a few members of Congress.

In the uproar that followed in the news, the retired Medal of Honor, Colonel Jack Jacobs, went on record saying, the substance of McChrystal's interview is seen by most in the military as right, but agree that he was out of line.

And the crystal decided to take the situation in his own hands, to become impatient.

He felt like he knew what needed to happen and he ignored proper protocol or process and he decided to just let it all go in this Rolling Stones magazine.

Now you recall what happened, he was let go.

But it's so easy to be critical, isn't it?

You see something that's not being done right and you're gonna fix it.

You know how it needs to be done, the Bible's clear.

And you are confident because everyone around you that you've talked to agrees.

And you're convicted and convinced it will honor God and you know the final outcome is in alignment with God's will, but the question this morning I want to ask is, is it according to God's timing?

Because if we're not careful we can be found doing God's will my way on my timetable, which is where I bend and push and pull strings I connive and manipulate to accomplish God's purposes.

God has led in so many ways to give it to you, yet it's not happening and you get impatient.

So you begin to take matters into your own hands.

You know you're not called to live a life of celibacy, and you know that the time is passing and prospects are narrowing, and you're getting lonely.

So, you begin to take matters into your own hands.

You feel your entire life has gifted you for it.

You know God wants you to serve Him in some way, but God has not opened the door yet.

You begin to take matters into your own hands.

Whatever it is, you're impatient, you know This is what God wants for you, but you're tired of waiting.

So you start manipulating, pulling strings.

You begin to push, to compromise, to match-make, and finally you get what you've wanted.

And then you suddenly rediscover God and pray, oh Lord, please bless in this job, bless this marriage, bless this ministry, bless my decision.

Make it strong and great because as you have led me, I'm moving forward today." Do we ever pray those prayers?

As I'm moving forward today, you've led me.

I know you've led me to push and connive.

God's will my way, that's how we like it.

Abraham was promised a son, But he grew impatient, didn't he?

So he took a servant, Hagar, and they had a son, Ishmael.

But he too grew impatient and took matters into his own hands and he tricked his brother Esau.

He manipulated, he pulled strings, he compromised God's will my way.

And today I wanna look at a story in Exodus chapter 2 of Moses.

You may remember Moses was born under persecution and after 3 months, they say, we just can't take it anymore.

You study the word for this little thing that they created, it's ark, provided.

And God miraculously moves and his mother is paid, you remember he's found and now not only is he delivered, but The mother is paid, the family is paid to raise Moses.

And spirit of prophecy tells us, until he was about 12 years old, he was raised by his mother.

Now don't get me wrong, all mothers have an incredible responsibility, but how would you like the pressure that at 12 years of age your child will be taken from you and thrust into a very worldly situation, a very royal situation?

Incredible responsibility of this mother.

The young mother, this young mother holds the destiny of this child in her hands.

She is sowing seeds, making impressions on his developing mind that will remain with him for life.

Let me read a quote to you from Adventist home, 231, in reference to mothers.

The king upon his throne has no higher work than has the mother.

She has in her power the molding of her children's characters that they may be fitted for the higher immortal life.

An angel could not ask for a higher mission, for in doing this work, she is doing service for God.

Let her only realize the high character of her task, and it will inspire with her courage.

Let her realize the worth of her work, and put on the whole armor of God that she may resist the temptation to conform to the world's standard.

We might have some stay-at-home mothers here.

I've been entrusted with this little life, this little character.

And Some of you can't be a stay-at-home mom.

But you still have a tremendous role to play.

So spirit Prophecy also tells us that an angel instructed Moses that God had chosen him to break the bondage of his people.

As a young man, I don't know what age, 08:10, 12 maybe, you're the 1 Moses.

But I imagine Moses has his own assumptions of what that may look like.

So at the age of 12 his world drastically changes and in fact the historian Josephus tells us because Pharaoh had no son or heir Moses is being groomed for the throne.

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