The Dramatic "Yes"

Let your "no" be "no" and your "yes" be "yes." Where is the room for the maybe? Where is the time for "Let me wait and see?" This is not an argument for "Your Best Life Now?" or "Getting the most out of life now." God's Yes is dramatic, but sometimes it is so constant, so persistent, is awesomeness and magnitude is missed. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 1:19-20, "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you...was not "Yes and No"; but in him it is always "Yes." For in him every one of God's promises is a "Yes." "

We look to the story, and find that even in our disobedience as a people of God, our LORD remained faithful to the LORD's people. That is the Yes. The Yes of God is not the material blessings of this world. It is not spiritual or physical empowerment to conquer the Goliaths of the world. It is these things, but when we proclaim that God's yes is empowering us for the sake of us, then we have missed the point of God's "Yes." God's Yes is one that follows us as it followed the son(s) in Luke 12. God's "Yes" is a promise, but a promise that God will follow us, even to the point of our death. God's "Yes" will follow us even to death. When we trust in our own knowledge or power, then we miss the Yes, and it becomes a "No," because we reject God's Yes. That "Yes" demands our obedience.