Many
people have such a low regard for the Lord.
They do not hold Him up in high esteem.
God is treated as one of us. Many
have taken the truth that God is with us to mean that He is one of us. God may be deemed to be greater than we are,
but barely. Many speak of Him in ways
that make Him to be less supreme to us than He actually is. God as being perfectly holy and worthy of our
humility before Him does not captivate most of us.
God
is often treated as an extra in our lives.
We give Him attention, but He is not the center of our attention. We acknowledge His realness and presence, but
we don’t invest our lives in Him in such a way that He is Lord over us. In practice, we devote more time and energy
on other things than we do God. He is
not our supreme God. We allow idols in
our lives and give them the place in our lives that God alone deserves.
The
Lord says that we must stop putting other things before Him. He is not pleased with us when we give Him
lip service and when we do, He will not acknowledge the time we do give
Him. What we offer to Him is regarded as
an insult to Him. If our hearts are not
devoted to Him, the Lord will not tolerate what we do in His name. We live and worship in vain if God is not
supreme in our lives. God is a jealous
god and He says all such things must stop; they are a desecration of His holy
name.
How
convinced do you think God is when you claim that He is yours and you are
His? He knows your heart and is not
fooled by the things that fool us. If
Jesus is not your Lord you are not living a life pleasing and acceptable to
God. He demands our full attention. We are to love Him with all of our heart,
mind and soul. There is no room for
anything less. We need to stay in
constant vigilance over our souls. We
need to examine our hearts to see if Jesus is indeed Lord of them. If Jesus is not your Lord, you need to bow
before Him today until He is. He will
not take a backseat in our lives.
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