Joel Osteen is extraordinarily amazing!
Anyone can adopt a Title for themselves.
Anyone can set a personal goal for themselves.
Anyone can establish (or in some cases assume an established) Platform.
Some people set goals to focus on being “motivational speaker’s”, which “in short” simply means to “only speak positive words to any other person who may at any time be one of their listeners”.
I am not “knocking” “positive motivational speech”.
My issue with “Pastor’s (whose Platform and Audience of listeners are geared toward the aspect of Religious Beliefs)…
whereas I find an imbalance.
The Lord God Himself, created the first man and Put him in a garden, and in the midst of that garden was an Express Tree, called the Tree of the Knowledge of “Good and Evil”, to which the man was Expressly Told to AVOID.
Why was (Adam the first ManKIND of being) Told to AVOID that Tree of the Knowledge of “Good AND Evil”?
Reading and Study, and subsequent scripture teaches the WHY…
* FIRST hear and be filled with the GOOD, the TRUTH according to God…THEN you SHOULD be prepared to HEAR and thereafter, RECOGNIZE the EVIL.
Granted, motivational speakers, Begin and End with what by all accounts appears as POSITIVE.
Examining JESUS’ teaching; Yes He taught, preached the TRUTH according to God…which INCLUDED Positive AND Negative.
WHY?
Because, inasmuch as GOOD has positive consequences, so also does EVIL have negative consequences.
Considering, millions of manKIND Beings, Like it or not, ARE co-mingling, co-habitants upon the face of the WHOLE earth, with very different thoughts, ideas, beliefs; AND with:
Men with governing powers over them…
(Good and Wicked) AND with;
Unseen Spirits with powers greater than them…(Good and Evil)…
That which can, do, daily Negatively affect good, wicked, evil, cunning men from all walks, stations, beliefs.
A listener of a motivational speaker, particularly, whose Platform and Listeners are expressly geared toward POSITIVE…
Certainly can cause the individual Listener to “feel” good about “themselves”, and be a “contentment” unto the individual.
The Lord Gods Teaching is a BALANCE of “good and evil”; Hear and Learn Both;
Know and Do Good;
Know and be Prepared for Evil.
And Remember…A building established as a meeting place dedicated unto the Lord God…
IS a House of Prayer, Worship, Praise, Thankfulness unto the Lord God, that He is Pleased….His feelings? Or mans?
Glory to God,
Taken