FAITH CAPSULE: Engaging love for worthlessness and falsehood is turning the glory of God (presence of God) to shame.
John 8:21-47
Asking, seeking and knocking are the ways of praying to God to hear us. David demonstrated experience of expecting to pray to God so as to hear from God. David stated, “Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself him who is godly; the Lord will hear when I call to Him.”(Psalm 4:1-3)
Clearly in the verses above, David testified deliverance from distress because in his prayer to God, he was relived.
David also pointed out that engaging love for worthlessness and falsehood is turning the glory of God (presence of God) to shame. David must have been curious by asking for how long will man love continues for worthlessness and seek falsehood.
Are you in the religion of worthless and falsehood? How long will man hang in worthlessness and falsehood religion that does not deliver answer for praying to God?
What is it about worthlessness? What is it about falsehood that is taking charge in the life of man especially acclaimed believers?
Worthlessness can be described as: Insignificance, unimportant, irrelevance. Worthlessness is without doubt good-for-nothing.
Falsehood can be described as: Lie, untruth, misrepresentation. Falsehood is nothing but engaging act of deceiving, the act of lying or making false statements. Are you embracing self with worthless and falsehood? Seek God to express the love of God. God cannot be deceived.
Majority knows the truth but makes the choice not to believe truth. Exchange truth for lie is the evidence of man’s comfortable with emotion that does not extend to God.
Man makes the choice of not to clinch truth which is not to believe Jesus. John 8:45 recorded Jesus’ word, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.”
Among reasons God will not hear prayer is the result of: Failure not to believe Jesus but take to lie in the place of truth; turning to worthlessness and falsehood is turning the glory of God to shame. Know God by clinching to truth.
–Knowing God will determine our knowing edge (knowledge) to be over the challenges of this wicked world.
–know about God is the avenue to unfailing stagnation; it is the source of limitation of moving forward and not able to have edge over challenges of this wicked world.
Know God to avoid worthless and falsehood to retain the presence of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for His hand to deliver you from conscious or unconscious worthlessness and falsehood.