God is the world’s greatest good;
good He defines within the purview of His purposes. Therefore the greatest good
for us is to be found in Him. This is His purpose and should be our goal. God
doesn’t need us, He is totally perfect and complete within Himself, but He does
treasure and want us. His love for us is relentless… infinitely so: There is
nothing we can do to make Him love us more, and nothing we can do to make Him
love us less. We, on the other hand, are in desperate need of God but don’t
really want Him, pondering with callous indifference how little we can do to squeak
by. We are His jewels. All too often… He is just our Genie…
You see, God
purchased us – paying the greatest price ever paid for anything – the most
precious blood of His Beloved Son – so He has every legal right to indenture us
as slaves to Himself. But instead He gives us the freedom to choose whom we
will serve, God or Self. Many make a pretense… a profession, of choosing God as
the Lord of their life only to slide into the all too easy enslavement of Self
control. And, Self loves life, the pleasures and trinkets of this world, the
very things Jesus warned against. Professing Christ as our Lord and Savior without
possessing Him is a deadly charade: Saints, we must possess Christ and be
possessed by Him, allowing His Spirit to indwell us, and take control of our
misplaced desires. But, all too often, we give only a small bit of our heart to
God, selecting some aspects of the Christian life – such as Sunday church
attendance, giving a little, and maybe joining some church sponsored activity –
to (we think) appease God and allow us to convince ourselves our relationship
with God is OK. And then we have the audacity to think we are entitled to His
blessings over our life. News Flash: God knows our hearts, and He doesn’t want
some of our time… some of our money… some of our life, He wants the whole
enchilada submitted to Him – under the leadership of the Holy Spirit – and, He
wants it 24/7. When we try to live out our Christian faith professing Christ as
our Lord and Savior without possessing His indwelling life… we are just trying
to squeak by while hanging on to the world with a death grip. This just won’t
work…
Jesus said in
Revelations 3:15-16: “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold
or hot. So then, because you are
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”
Cold is a metaphor for a total lack of commitment to God. Hot is a metaphor for
a full 100% commitment to God. And… Squeakers get Spewed!
Squeakers get Spewed!
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