FAITH CAPSULE: After the celebration, what are you giving back to God?
Psalm 100, 136
God is the eternal creation of all, and He is mindful of all and does not want anyone to perish. The Bible records the evidence of God’s love, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
Do you understand and know the love of God for all?
John 17:24 records God’s desire, “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”
The majority has given self to the Glamorous celebration of Jesus with the lack of knowledge to live life for the glory of God.
All need to know that Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation, to avoid a failure not to miss eternal life. Romans 6:23 buttress, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
In your celebration of the gift of God, what is it that you are giving back to God?
All glamorous celebration of the birth of Jesus should know that celebration without understanding to know and live life for God is not enough to be counted as giving back to God.
What is the aftermath of your yearly celebration of the gift of God?
Are you thinking about how to give back to God for His gift for your life?
Why not give self to praising God with the understanding that will draw you to the presence of God?
Praising God with understanding is giving self to God as a reasonable sacrifice before God, to seek God diligently. Psalm 47:7 records, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
Praising God with understanding should be rooted in the heart but not pretending to praise before any man.
Praising God is placing God gloriously high.
Praising God is not entertainment to impress a man but a vehicle to enter and locate the presence of God. Psalm 100:4 records, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise…”
The world’s glamorous celebration of God should not deny you from celebrating God with understanding and giving back to God.
Give back to God with praise to gain the presence of God.
David’s praise before God is a way of giving back to God.
2 Samuel 6:14-16 records, “Then David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord…”
With understanding, come out of the seasonal GLAMOROUS CELEBRATION of Jesus’ birth, give back to Jesus for His love for you, to have His presence over your life.
Prayer for today: Let God know that you want to give back for His love.