Doing Good Stuff for God

It’s easy. Think of a good idea, get excited enough to do it and do it! It’s all good. Right? Wrong.

I will tell you all about it. When I was twenty-two, I started a crisis pregnancy center, recruited an all-volunteer staff, bought a 24-hour hotline service, rented office space and on and on. Four years later, I was disillusioned, exhausted and having anxiety attacks night and day. I barely got through the all-day conference on pro-life support systems that I’d planned and hosted for community healthcare providers. 

What followed changed my life forever.  The Lord, the God I’d felt had let me down, said, “Both the knowledge of good and evil lead to death.”

Twenty years later, I’m not the same driven, trying-to-please, busy Christian. Using the structure of the cross as a visible example of how life in Christ is intended to work, I now exhort and encourage others to live for God, eating from the other tree–-the Tree of Life.

Using our knowledge of good and evil to serve God is not just disobedient; it’s deadly spiritually. Things may go well for a season, but eventually, the Lord will call us to reformation.

By Carolyn Cote