Chicken Little was a false prophet. Yes, we learned that in school when I was a kid. Maybe you did as well or maybe you need to read the story and teach it to your children. In any case, the call of "the sky is falling!" hasn't happened. And it won't happen today as well. Some war torn countries children may think the sky is falling due to warfare but the sky isn't falling then either. The lesson learned in the Chicken Little story is that people get tired of hearing false proclamations of any kind that don't bear out. We have plenty of that going on through the news, social media, dooms dayers, and the like. We also have the conspiracy theorists and of course televangelists who are in it for whatever they can get out of people. While we have all this false prophet stuff going on we are distracted from actually being Christ to the world because our focus is pulled off Jesus. As a result Jesus isn't able to live through us and the Word isn't preached and people aren't coming to Jesus. Think I'm off base? Tell me the last time you prayed with someone to surrender their lives to your first love?
The Bible says that the prophecy of a true prophet of God always comes true. Pretty simple test if you ask me. Prophets are to be men and women of God who put forth the time and effort to be fully in love with Jesus and want nothing more than to bring the Word of God to others regardless of whether the message is positive or negative. The messages can be either but are always going to come true. Be careful what you wish for when you become a prophet of God. The prophecies of God do not mince words, do not care about our justification and rationalization and are not subject to the laws of this world. This is a spiritual issue and not a natural issue. Don't be a Chicken Little. Be a son or daughter of God. God can use anyone who has surrendered their lives so that Jesus can live through them. Do you live such a life?
In order to understand the hand of God via the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit, you must understand that all three parts of the Trinity are intimately connected and involved. Likewise, we must be joined with them in like fashion for God to do his work here on earth through us. God wants us to be a conduit of his love to the world around us. He wants us to be the one through which His healing, instruction, and prayers for protection from Satan come to the world. Besides opposition and persecution, Satan has no power over you as "greater is He who is within us than he who is in the world." Our only choice as Christians is to be surrendered to Jesus and not Chicken Little. It's always your choice.
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