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I Believe In God, I Just
Don't Serve Him During the day, I felt the LORD give this short
sentence to me: People believe in GOD, but they choose not to SERVE HIM.
As I was musing on this, my mind went to work.
I feel our society is so cursed by this concept that many folks
attend various church functions without giving GOD a second look or
thought; business-as-usual, never allow GOD in any way to interfere with
whatever one wishes and make sure HE IS NOT PERMITTED TO TELL US HOW TO
LIVE, WHAT TO DO WITH OUR MONEY OR TIME….
Believing, but not serving seems to be more PREVALENT than I first
realized. We, too, have many
folks that seem to embrace the same idea; BELIEVE, BUT DON'T EVER GET
SERIOUS AND SERVE. Ask
yourself right now this question: “AM I SERVING GOD, OR JUST BELIEVING
IN GOD?” Serving the LORD has many ramifications to it: we
become HIS LOVE SLAVES, our time is HIS, our loot is HIS, we must handle
ourselves very differently than many who JUST BELIEVE IN HIM.
Believing can allow lifestyles to be ANTI-CHRIST, to say the least.
GOD is never mentioned; OUR PRIORITIES must come first.
LOYALTY steps into the very picture with us in first place.
Attendance to church services, outreach, or involvement in various
things must never come before SELF. I think our very nation is held hostage by the
concept: BELIEVE IN GOD, but do not let OUR BELIEFS in any way become a
PLATFORM for SUBMITTING AND SERVING GOD.
Joshua cried to his people, “I am going to SERVE GOD”, which
was shouted to those who BELIEVED IN GOD.
It is so easy to BELIEVE and not REALLY SERVE.
When we serve, our very lives are turned over to JESUS AND HIS
KINGDOM, but if we just believe we can go on our merry way and never give
HIM any thought or VALUE HIM above everything else.
ARE YOU BELIEVING HIM, OR ARE YOU SERVING HIM?
Ó 2005 J.W.
Arnold
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