Something Greater

Let's just cut to the chase today...

Our God is not small nor is He doing anything unimportant. Therefore, the reason our Christianity is small or misdirected is because we have made it that way.

God has wonderful things for us in a proper relationship that will last forever. What are these things and why is the Church ignoring them? To start with, our society worships itself and all the worldly things that are available. During much of our previous history, people knew that it was important to worship God because He has the power over life and death. Today, very foolishly, we think of God as something that we pray to when things go wrong. God is not just to be thought of occasionally. Where is the respect that God deserves? God is the all powerful creator of everything and we are required (as His creation) to worship Him every day as the most important part of our life. Worship God in spirit and in truth today!

If we fall on our face and worship God appropriately, we will find that God has something greater for His people. The first word used for worship of our Creator and Savior is "to adore". We mentioned the worship of people in history and it is true that they worshiped out of fear. Maybe people lost their fear when Jesus came and provided salvation for the poor souls on earth. However, God has not changed and our cavalier attitude is carrying many deceived people into Hell. The proper way to worship our heavenly father is with fear and adoration. God has something greater than the life we earn and buy in this world if we will give it up for Him. When people have already made their own plans they cannot find God's will.

This is what we will say if we are serious about serving God:

we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 2 Cor 5:9

For many years the Church has been taught that the most important thing in our religion is salvation. This is a very selfish understanding of the Scriptures. If we really believe that God is greater than ourselves then the needs of the greater must certainly outweigh the lesser. Maybe if we understood how great God is we would be compelled to put His will first. If every believer worshiped the Lord with the zeal and devotion that He deserves, it would shake the world.

To serve God wholeheartedly will also change our life and we will find that the Lord has something greater for us than we ever dreamed. As we selfishly spend our life worrying about being good enough to enter Heaven, God's work here on earth is left undone. We are not just saved alone, we are saved for a purpose.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness. Rom 6:22