FAITH CAPSULE: This wicked world demands to be awake seeking God diligently.
Matthew 6
God in His word does have required standard for all to seek Him diligently. Bible recorded, “…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6) Seek God diligently which is acceptable to Him as His required standard.
With sincere desire not just by determination, but prayerfully engage seeking God by following Him.
Above all reasons, seeking God by following Him more than ever includes to do the following:
WAKE UP FROM SLEEPING
Are you living or sleeping before God? This wicked world demands to be awake seeking God diligently and not be asleep spiritually. One that is not living for God is sleeping before God spiritually.
Jesus’ parable is an everyday truth with spiritual application. It is an earthly truth with a heavenly meaning. When sleeping takes the place of serving God, Matthew 13:25-30 stated “but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn.” The parable of Jesus reveals sleeping as the key for wicked to gain entrance into man’s life. Every time one is sleeping before God will position man to be FAR from GOD which is never FAR but NEAR to all man. Sleeping before God is the evidence of KNOWING ABOUT GOD. KNOWING GOD is serving God acceptably continually.
TO COME OUT OF WICKEDNESS is living life to seek God diligently. It is important to know that wickedness of this world is awake continually. One that is asleep in the place of living life for God is positioning self for the wicked world to have a place in one’s life. GOD will judge the wicked world at His appointed time. Wicked ones often get away with their activities but their activities, should not be a discouraging reason for no man not to be seeking God diligently. Seek God and not become a victim of God’s judgment over wickedness. Ecclesiastes 8:11-12 warned, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.” God is watching man and waiting for His appointed time to show up for JUDGEMENT.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to seek Him diligently.