NOTHING CAN HINDER GOD OR A GOOD MAN

“If any man will to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God….”

(JOHN 7:17)

The notion that hostile persons or unfavorable circumstances can prevent the will of God from being fulfilled in a human life is altogether erroneous.

 

Nothing, no one, can hinder God or a good man!

 

It is one of the glories of the Christian faith that it can be present in effective power regardless of whether or not the moral and political environment is favorable to it. We recall that H. G. Wells once said that he personally believed Buddhism to be the best religion but admitted that it could flourish only in countries having a warm climate!

 

If true religion consisted in outward practices, then it could be destroyed by laws forbidding those practices. But if the true worshiper is one who worships God in spirit and in truth, how can laws or jails or abuses or deprivations prevent the spiritual man from worshiping?

 

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free! No one can hinder him. It is only when we introduce our own will into our relation to God that we get into trouble. When we weave into the pattern of our life’s threads of our own desires, we instantly become subject to hindrances from the outside.

 

The essence of spiritual worship is to love supremely, to trust confidently, to pray without ceasing and to seek to be Christlike and holy, doing all the good we can for Christ’s sake.

 

How impossible for anyone to hinder that kind of practice!