Oftentimes, we’re not residing our greatest life as a result of we’re merely pursuing the fallacious issues – the fallacious relationships, habits, and needs.
Our non secular, emotional, and psychological appetites say loads in regards to the temperature of our relationship with God. And if we’re trustworthy, a lot of our sin is as a result of we wish one thing greater than we need to do what’s proper within the eyes of God. We wish “it” greater than we need to please Him in that second, and we wish “it” as a result of it feels good or carries a promise to really feel good.
Sin usually does really feel good within the second, nevertheless it hits totally different when the invoice comes due. Religious maturity understands that doing what’s proper doesn’t at all times really feel good. Once we’re not obeying God, we’re then by default obeying the enemy, following his will and methods.
📖 Ephesians 2.2 CEV: You adopted the methods of this world and obeyed the satan. He guidelines the world, and his spirit has energy over everybody who doesn’t obey God.
Disobedience to God isn’t simply doing dangerous issues in His eyes, it’s additionally forfeiting the ability and authority granted to us as followers of Christ. It’s subjecting ourselves to a different energy apart from God – he (Devil) who guidelines the world as we all know it.
Obedience to God is not the grey space that we might generally consider it to be as a result of partial obedience remains to be disobedience within the eyes of God. Once we don’t do what God says and reside how He needs us to reside, we’re taking part in for the opposite crew (the enemy of darkness) in these moments, and settling for a lesser than life. On the finish of the day, we’re both for God and His methods or towards them. As Matthew factors out, we get to resolve who our Lord is.
📖 Matthew 6.24 AMP: “Nobody can serve two masters; for both he’ll hate the one and love the opposite, or he shall be dedicated to the one and despise the opposite. You can’t serve God and mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more than the Lord].
God at all times wins in the long run, however understanding that we’re taking part in for the fallacious crew ought to unsettle us sufficient to make a course correction. Equally unsettling is the concept we are going to by no means reside our greatest life making an attempt to reside twin lives, serving darkness (Devil) and lightweight (God).
Both Jesus is Lord over all [of our life], or He is not Lord in any respect. You’ll, I’ll, we’ll every worship one thing or somebody as a result of we had been created to worship and fix to one thing greater than ourselves. We select what and who we undergo and who and what we pursue with our hearts. Once we take our cues from the world and starvation, thirst, and pursue what the tradition says we should be our greatest selves, we’ve purchased into the lie and we’ve missed the mark (sin).
Like Jesus, we’ve to grasp the task and mission. The battle between good and evil is at all times for the throne (the seat of authority) of our coronary heart. And God cannot rule on the throne of our coronary heart till we step down. Our greatest life is lived out once we need and pursue the proper issues — all issues Jesus.
A Prayer For At the moment
Lord, present me these issues which have pulled my coronary heart away from Yours. Change my urge for food for that which hungers and thirsts for You, and finally, pleases You. Assist me to need You greater than I would like “it” and something that the world might supply. Thank You for really being my neatest thing.
