Doing Business With God
Luke 10:1-12
By Harold Dinsmore, M.Div
© 2008 Harold Dinsmore.

We have it so easy as Christians today.  We do not really know what it is like to be persecuted for our religious beliefs, but I fear that if America continues on its crash course it has chosen, we may know what it is like.  The land of the free and the home of the brave is turning into a cesspool of crime and immorality.

We have our cozy little homes, plenty to eat, clothes to wear and we don’t do anything, we don’t even lift as much as a little finger to help someone escape damnation in the Lake of Fire.  Doing business with God is a life of self-denial.  Jesus Himself said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”¹

We don’t deny ourselves.  ‘God owes it to me,’ we exclaim!  We don’t really deny ourselves.  Oh, we rationalize, we go without that new TV or coat or car.  Maybe it’s only that cake or pepsi at lunch that we deny ourselves in order to save the money to purchase what we really think is high on our priority list.  I have noticed some people destitute on welfare and food stamps always have the money for cigarettes and liquor.