THE CARE REQUIRED FOR LOVING GOD
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Can I ask you a question? How much do you have to love someone in order to take care of them? There are many people who can feel a deep need to care for someone when they don't even know that person. They are those who are called in their hearts to respond when innocent people are put into harm's way through disasters and things that happen beyond their control. Many of these people are involved in saving what they can in life including the natural surroundings we live in without ever having any personal interest or connection to them...they are simply called on to love and serve, but they cannot tell you why. God does nothing without a reason or a goal behind it. That includes every call He makes to us to a particular purpose we have an obligation to take care of the business or work that our heart is drawn to. With that kind of detail put into God's preparation, we should realize the kind of detail that is required from our heart to love and honor Him Josuha 23:11. As servants of God (disciples) we need to be taking care of the business we have been sent to accomplish in the name of our Lord. Deuteronomy 20:5-9.
Everything that God has asked of us is wrapped up in love in some way. Our response to God is basically directly tied to the amount of love we have for Him in our hearts, and no matter how much we may try to deny it the true results of that fact always shows up in the priorities we give God's call to us to do something. Depending on how much we may mumble and grumble about it as we go about our work for God also shows that love. I find it interesting how King David dealt with things like that as he worked his way through the many inconsistencies that sin brought into his life. It wasn't that God was not speaking with David on a daily basis or that God had left him alone to do his own thing for a time, but David was a man who was strong-willed in what he wanted in life, and yet his heart was still held captive by his love for God. In Psalms 15:1-5 David lays out the characteristics of a Holy life, and then again in Psalms 18: 25-26 he shows us the key to walking with God. It is possible for all of us to be people who are after God's own heart, but we have to work at it in the same way that David did. God asks us to love with our whole heart, and not just as an ideal or even a conviction of thought. We don't have to think our way through loving someone because we must allow that person to get through that inner circle; which is that personal circle that we only allow someone to penetrate who has won our trust. I don't really think God should have to prove Himself any more than He already has to us to have earned that kind of love and trust from us.
This idea of discipleship with God is a choice on His part to choose us to be in His inner circle of trust and love, but we, in turn, need to earn His love and trust. I think in truth that is the part of the equasion that we don't understand about our relationship with God. Instead of concentrating on God's duty to us because He dares to say "I love you" to us we need to concentrate on our response to His love for us, and in the fact that He has proven His love to us; we on the otherhand have never yet proven our love for Him in any kind of deep or meanful way other than saying nice things about Him in the process of praise on a Sunday Morning. The question is " DO WE REALLT THINK THAT KIND OF LOVE IS WORKING?" I would really like to get you thoughts and opinions on this...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Can I ask you a question? How much do you have to love someone in order to take care of them? There are many people who can feel a deep need to care for someone when they don't even know that person. They are those who are called in their hearts to respond when innocent people are put into harm's way through disasters and things that happen beyond their control. Many of these people are involved in saving what they can in life including the natural surroundings we live in without ever having any personal interest or connection to them...they are simply called on to love and serve, but they cannot tell you why. God does nothing without a reason or a goal behind it. That includes every call He makes to us to a particular purpose we have an obligation to take care of the business or work that our heart is drawn to. With that kind of detail put into God's preparation, we should realize the kind of detail that is required from our heart to love and honor Him Josuha 23:11. As servants of God (disciples) we need to be taking care of the business we have been sent to accomplish in the name of our Lord. Deuteronomy 20:5-9.
Everything that God has asked of us is wrapped up in love in some way. Our response to God is basically directly tied to the amount of love we have for Him in our hearts, and no matter how much we may try to deny it the true results of that fact always shows up in the priorities we give God's call to us to do something. Depending on how much we may mumble and grumble about it as we go about our work for God also shows that love. I find it interesting how King David dealt with things like that as he worked his way through the many inconsistencies that sin brought into his life. It wasn't that God was not speaking with David on a daily basis or that God had left him alone to do his own thing for a time, but David was a man who was strong-willed in what he wanted in life, and yet his heart was still held captive by his love for God. In Psalms 15:1-5 David lays out the characteristics of a Holy life, and then again in Psalms 18: 25-26 he shows us the key to walking with God. It is possible for all of us to be people who are after God's own heart, but we have to work at it in the same way that David did. God asks us to love with our whole heart, and not just as an ideal or even a conviction of thought. We don't have to think our way through loving someone because we must allow that person to get through that inner circle; which is that personal circle that we only allow someone to penetrate who has won our trust. I don't really think God should have to prove Himself any more than He already has to us to have earned that kind of love and trust from us.
This idea of discipleship with God is a choice on His part to choose us to be in His inner circle of trust and love, but we, in turn, need to earn His love and trust. I think in truth that is the part of the equasion that we don't understand about our relationship with God. Instead of concentrating on God's duty to us because He dares to say "I love you" to us we need to concentrate on our response to His love for us, and in the fact that He has proven His love to us; we on the otherhand have never yet proven our love for Him in any kind of deep or meanful way other than saying nice things about Him in the process of praise on a Sunday Morning. The question is " DO WE REALLT THINK THAT KIND OF LOVE IS WORKING?" I would really like to get you thoughts and opinions on this...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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