A lot of people do things for the
wrong reasons. Some guys sweet talk girls because they want to get in their
pants, some children treat their parents nicely because they want an expensive
Christmas gift, some students answer all of the questions in class because they
want everyone to think they’re the smartest. While you may be fooling some
people by doing these things that seem
kind, at the end of the day, God sees our true motives because he knows our
hearts better than we do.
Yesterday at our Young Adult service
at church, Chris (our Friday blogger) spoke about working towards a personal
relationship with God, and his own journey in doing so. One of the most
important things in establishing a relationship with God is to aim to just
please Him not just in what we say, but in what we do. Colossians 3:1 says, “And
whatever you do, whether in word or deed,
do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.”
My prayer for everyone reading today
is that we, individually and collectively, work on creating a relationship with
God so that we can recognize the times when our motives are impure and when we
need to earnestly seek God, asking him to clean our hearts like in Psalm 51:10 when
David prayed “create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within
me.” I encourage you all to examine your reasons for doing the things you do against the Bible so
that you can grow to know yourself and simultaneously grow closer to God.
Merciful Mondays: Jael
“For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors.” Deuteronomy 4:31
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