Funny meme! But is it correct?
Today I came across this picture:
Seems nice right? Perhaps even “encouraging” or “hopeful”?
But now comes the question…. Is it true? Or is there something more / is there something wrong with it…?
Let’s dive a little deeper….
Biblically speaking, it’s false, very wrong, not good at all… oops… it’s a half-truth, a very false one actually…
Look at Job. Did God give Job something to smile about every day? No. Although God never left Job and Job never left God, every day wasn’t fun and games… and God didn’t give Job anything to laugh about every day…
In the end, God did have a plan, and He has a plan for you and me, but until we die, we will still be sinners and pay the price for eating the “apple.” What that picture says sounds more like a prosperity gospel, which is a false gospel. Sounds great, but it’s incorrect.
If you believe in that, you run the great risk of being deeply disappointed in God… because not every day is “lol” or “a smile”. And here is the thing…. we brought that upon ourselves…. when you ate that apple (or whatever kind of fruit it was), God was VERY clear:
To the woman he said,“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,and he will rule over you.”To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Genesis 3:16-19
The other thing is… if you read the meme… you might also think: just keep stressing (and the cause of that stress) because God will fix that for you anyway.
Well…. Nope. You must change and listen to God, not the other way around.
So, no matter how I read it, it’s incorrect.
but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 (and that also applies to funny pictures…)
The good news? If you believe that Jesus died for your sins… today may be terrible… but a bright future awaits you. Eternally. Because for every believer, the message is: “the best is yet to come”. And that’s the whole truth:
while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Titus 2:13
