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.
Binsey Cote will tell you all about it. When Binsey was twenty-two she 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, she was disillusioned, exhausted and having anxiety attacks night and day. She barely got through the all day conference she planned and hosted for community healthcare services on pro-life support systems.
What followed changed her life forever. The Lord she felt had let her down said, “Both the knowledge of good and evil lead to death.”
Twenty years later, Binsey is 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, Binsey exhorts and encourages 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, its deadly spiritually, ” she says. “For a season things may go well but eventually the Lord will re-direct and that process will almost always blow us out of the water!”
