FAITH CAPSULE: Giving self to living for God is to sow self in God.

1 John 2

All should live life with a desire to give themselves to living life for God.
What does not represent God should not have a place in the life of all.
Revelation 4:11 points out that all exist for God.
What one sows by way of life, such will reap.
The life one lives is what one sows to reap.
All will surely reap from what is a sow.
What are you sowing?
In life, it is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of perfection.
Anyone that sows the seed of a lie will reap the fruit of deception.
Get to know God, and do not be a victim of one that reaps bad in life and the afterlife.
Know to sow yourself in God and keep His commandments. 
1 John 2:4-6 states, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” 
Work without walking in Him is not enough.
Work is to believe, and the walk is to behave, living by the word of God.
God invests so much in man while man extends so little to Him. 
Working and not walking will not get one to where God wants man to be.
The walk of one is the seed that one sows to gain reward from God.
Give self to living for God by walking according to His word. 
Leviticus 18:4 states, “You shall observe My judgment and keep my ordinances, to walk in them. I am the Lord your God” 
Keep the word of God by meditating on his word day and night.
God is good, and doing good is giving self to living for God for the glory of God.
A parable is an everyday truth that has a spiritual application. 
It is an earthly truth with a heavenly meaning. 
Jesus gave the parable of the Good Samaritan.
The parable connotes the mind of God concerning sowing good which is rooted in having a compassionate heart. 
In the parable, a man fell among thieves, was stripped of his belongings, wounded, and left behind half dead.
A priest and a Levite walked past on the other side, but a good Samaritan was able to sow good by reacting to the wounded man.
Knowing to do good but not do is sin.
Sin is turning from giving self to not living for God. 
James 4:17 warns, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” 
Abstain from sin, allow the glory of God to be established over your life, the reap of what you sow before God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the hand of God shall draw you near to Him.