FAITH CAPSULE: How are you serving Him to seek Him?
Deuteronomy 28
It is written, “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it.” (Deuteronomy 10:12-14) Word of God speaks to all. Do you love God to serve Him pleasingly? Serving God is to seek Him. Today, acclaimed believers are serving God as it pleases man instead of serving God as it pleases God.
Loving God demands serving Him diligently. To be diligent means to be constant in effort to accomplish doings for His glory. Diligence is to be attentive and persistent in doing in all good. Across the pages of the Bible, diligence describes the standard that is in place for man to see God and if man do not find Him now there will be no finding Him after the life now. Paul the apostle gave a valedictory speech and stated, “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:6-7) Paul’s statement indicated that living life is like being in race. If we are not in a race, Hebrews 12:1 would not have stated, “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”
How are you serving Him to seek Him? Is your race going to qualify you before God? Serving God to seek Him demands diligence just like running race. Man’s race demands diligence especially when man do not see in running with endurance in the physical.
Are you aware of any ensnaring sin such as lie, deception, and manipulation in your race of living life? Is your race according to God’s standard? With diligence, we are to live life according to God’s standard.
With diligence, we are to serve God earnestly to obey His command. Deuteronomy 11:13 stated, “And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 11:18 added, “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.” Serve God to seek Him diligently according to His word.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace in your serving Him to seek Him diligently.