In today’s blog I would like to pose a question for you all to think about. Are we growing or are we stagnant? This question is so important in our walk with the Lord because we are called to continually develop and mature in our faith. With maturity comes growth and with growth comes change. Have you changed since you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Look at your life and your walk; are you working on being better everyday? This growth is not only the external in your life it must be the internal also. Do you only do the things that you think are right or that people can see; like going to church, singing worship, being in a ministry or small group, wearing a t-shirt or having a bumper sticker. These are all good things but we need to ask why we are doing them. Is there that passionate desire to learn and grow to follow Christ because of who He is and what He did? Or do we feel like we have to do these things because that is what we were told or taught? I love reading and discussing what God shows me in His word and has put on my heart.
Isaiah 1:11 say, “What makes you think I want all your sacrifices? Says the Lord. I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle. I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.”
Why are we doing what we are doing? Ask yourself that question when you are growing and the “I have to read and have a relationship turns to I want or desire to read and have a relationship with the Lord. The difference is incredible, open God’s word because you love to and ask God to open your heart so you grow internally.
Isaiah chapter 1 Verse 13 says, “Stop bringing Me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts Me! As for your celebration of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting- they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings.”
Our relationship with the Lord is not a job, it takes passion and desire. Do we want a better life in this world? If so it will take total surrender to everything we think is important and us opening up to God’s will.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:12-14 “Sin will be rampant every where, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end with be saved. And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that nations will hear it; and then the end will come.”
This sounds awfully familiar, our will is never enough, we need to fall on our knees and say “God you will be done.” If we are living our lives as the driver we will always struggle, and what we think we are doing right will not be.
In Isaiah chapter 1 verse 15 it says, “When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of the innocent victims.”
Don’t just do what you do seek God and have purpose, and then it won’t be a job or something to check off a list, it will be what you love to do. Amen
Isaiah 1:11 say, “What makes you think I want all your sacrifices? Says the Lord. I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle. I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.”
Why are we doing what we are doing? Ask yourself that question when you are growing and the “I have to read and have a relationship turns to I want or desire to read and have a relationship with the Lord. The difference is incredible, open God’s word because you love to and ask God to open your heart so you grow internally.
Isaiah chapter 1 Verse 13 says, “Stop bringing Me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts Me! As for your celebration of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting- they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings.”
Our relationship with the Lord is not a job, it takes passion and desire. Do we want a better life in this world? If so it will take total surrender to everything we think is important and us opening up to God’s will.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:12-14 “Sin will be rampant every where, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end with be saved. And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that nations will hear it; and then the end will come.”
This sounds awfully familiar, our will is never enough, we need to fall on our knees and say “God you will be done.” If we are living our lives as the driver we will always struggle, and what we think we are doing right will not be.
In Isaiah chapter 1 verse 15 it says, “When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of the innocent victims.”
Don’t just do what you do seek God and have purpose, and then it won’t be a job or something to check off a list, it will be what you love to do. Amen
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