Hello, hello! It's that time for another picture this moment! Ready? So, imagine this person growing up in church doing all the right things. It's like clock work. Every Sunday he is there not to mention the weekly Bible study. Everyone knows this guy to be great! He has been doing the same routine since he was a little boy. People expected him to preach, so he did. Young man started his own church and gained many followers because of it. Years went by and he was the talk of the town. This man was very well known in the community. He gets older and starts to suffer from health issues. People were worried. They didn't want to lose such a great guy just yet. Unfortunately, his time was up. Now, he is being judged by God. God tells him about all the signs that were done in His Name and said depart from Me because your work was through sin. I don't know you! Wow! Imagine his shock. This man has been zealous all his life and God doesn't even know Him? How is that possible? Well, I will be glad to explain.
Going to church and showing up at weekly church functions doesn't qualify anyone for salvation. If read carefully, there was no discussion about His Love for God or people. All his life was centered around was outward show and others approval. Notice, people assumed he should preach and he did. God didn't call him. This guy then starts his own church for popularity and not for service. We MUST be careful about not falling into the same snare. The Disciple Challenge has taught me thus far what loving God is all about. It is easy to get caught up in our own zeal that we forget why we are truly saved. Jesus loved us so in turn we love Him. Jesus sacrificed so we sacrifice DAILY. Jesus obeyed His Father as we should obey our Father. But Jeus did all those out of Love. Love is what we need to get back to because Love covers the Ten Commandments. We will never go wrong when we genuinely love God. Loving God is more difficult than loving anyone else because He is so easily put on the back burner. Evaluate yourself. Can you picture it?
“Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name? and in ThyNname have cast out devils? and in Thy Name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Matthew 7:22-23 KJV
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