I feel like God has been speaking to me lately. He has put a lot on my mind. I am reading the book Forgotten God by Francis Chan and that has really got me to thinking (whatever I quote is by him.) So here I am writing this.
God doesnt call us to be comfortable in our Christian walk and/or faith. "God doesnt call me here so I could settle and live my life in comfort and in superficial peace." I think we shouldnt ever be satisfied with our own realtionship with God, because there is always more room to grow spiritually. We need to keep chasing after being like God until we achieve it. I feel like as the world we are constantly wanting to satisfy others. Why dont we want to constantly satisfy God? " I want to live so that I am full submitted to the spirit's leading on a daily basis. I dont want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly." When is church going to stop being a popularity contest and it being a place where we can kneel before the King at HIS throne? We have to break the routined practiced faith of going to church and it not doing anything and it being like well I went to church I'm good. Im going to go ahead and say that we all need God but how often do I want God and want Him in everything I do? What if we said the Lord is my shepherd and He is all I want. "Let's pray that God would empower us so radically so that we would get NO glory." I want it to be ALL OF HIM and absolutley none of me. I want to be hidden behind the cross, so when people see me they see Christ. "In all all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works;..[so that] an opponent [may have] nothing evil to say about you." -Titus 2:7-8 The world is constantly shouting at us [christians] to stop and sadly I feel like we play it safe now.The voice of the Lord will always be louder than the world's . Its just a matter of whose we choose to listen to. Because we dont truly love God and others we have ruined the name of God. We have totally messed up what this world was intended to be like. Look around you. What have we done? That's why I contstantly crave to be in Mexico, not just because I have a love for the people and their great faith but because I can escape from the worldly things and it just be me and God. We must start giving God the glory He deserves. Jesus very easliy could have backed out and not died for our sins. But he did and decided he would rather die for us than leave us in this dark world alone. HE is a sutainer and HE is victorious and we dont nearly give him the credit HE deserves. "Let's focus on believing the promises given to us by God, on submitting to him the fears we have and on surrendering ourselves fully to the work and will of God the Holy Spirit."
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