FAITH CAPSULE: Are you taking God for granted in God’s gift of life for you?
Genesis 22, Luke 5:1-11
Know, understand and be mindful of the truth that all are created by God for all to be living life for His glory. Revelations 4:11 declared, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will, they exist and were created.” When a man is not living life for the glory of God, is taking God for granted. Are you with excuses or delaying answering to God’s calling? In your service to God, are you pleasing self but displeasing God? Take note that calling God a long-suffering God is not a license for any man not to be living life for the glory of God.
Live life for God by lifting your hands as submission should be with the expectation reaching God. Continually living life for God is to remain connected with God.
God is a good God that is worth for all man to be living life for His glory.
Seeking God diligently with all heart and with all soul is to find Him. Deuteronomy 4:29 said it to us, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
What do we do to live life for God when seeking God diligently instead of taking God for granted?
TO SEEK GOD DILIGENTLY is obedience to HIS WORD
Exodus 19:5 recorded, “Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.” The Bible spoke in the Old Testament for the Israelites’ obedience to God. Also, in the New Testament, demonstration of obedience by disciples of Jesus’ living life for the glory of God. Luke 5:4-6 records, “When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless, at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.” Obedience is seeking God to live for His glory. Disciples of Jesus obeyed Jesus to live life for God as a fisher of man.
TO SEEKING GOD DILIGENTLY is fear God not to hold self from God’s word.
Abraham lived life for God’s glory. Abraham could not withhold from God’s request but did as commanded by God. God recognized Abraham’s obedience to His word and testified in Genesis 22:12, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Abraham could not take God for granted but lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
Prayer for today: Ask God to draw away from every agenda for you not to live for His glory.