FAITH CAPSULE: As a believer, what do you desire?
Psalm 27
Make the right choice to serve God.
Serve God in His way to find Him.
Responsibility is all that the right choice demands.
Determination with desire shall set one to serve God reasonably and experience the blessings of serving God.
Desire is an inner feeling that compels one to attain.
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a church-going believer or a true believer in God?
With desire, live to know God and live life for God.
One who desires to live for God will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Seeking God is encased in fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “…fear God by keeping His commandments, “for this is man’s all”. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”
Fear God, keep His commandments, and desire to seek Him reasonably.
1 Samuel 12:24 advises fearing God and serving Him wholeheartedly, “Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.”
Without any doubt, the desire for God should be in the heart.
Every desire for devotion to God will gain the presence of God.
Are you with the desire to seek God without an iota of doubt?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great should provoke the desire for Him.
God only sees and moves by the acts rooted in the heart of all.
Once He corrected Samuel concerning Jesse’s son, Eliab, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7). And before this incident, it was without doubt that, David’s heart was what God saw before Samuel declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14)
God sought David and saw the desires of his heart for Him.
King David knew what was best to desire of the Lord when he stated, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
From today, the desire from the depth of my heart to serve God shall provoke enablement by God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy that you live a life of serving Him diligently.