FAITH CAPSULE: Looking at God and not turn aside to Him is incomplete.
Exodus 3
Knowing about God is not the same as knowing God.
Looking at God is not the same as looking for God to find God.
The evidence to KNOW GOD is to TURN ASIDE to God.
It is an error, incomplete to look at God but not turn aside to God.
All must TURN ASIDE to God, to know God.
Through the Bible, it is repeatedly identified that there is a need to TURN ASIDE to God. For example, Moses could not live life in the calling of God until he TURNED ASIDE to God.
Exodus 3:2-4 RECORDS,
“Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he LOOKED, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I WILL NOW TURN ASIDE AND SEE THIS GREAT SIGHT, why the bush does not burn.” So when the Lord saw that he TURNED ASIDE TO LOOK, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:2-4)
Moses looked without getting the calling of God until he turned aside to see.
THE KEY TO ARRIVE AT THE CALLING OF GOD DEMANDS TURNING ASIDE to see God. One that sees God will KNOW GOD, to answer THE CALLING of God.
The world is full of distractions from inside to outside and will deny turning aside to look for God to find God.
Get to know God, turn aside to look for God.
With a desire to live life in the calling of God, do not count on your determination because determination will fail.
However, with desire and persistent PRAYER, one WILL not fail but turn aside to God. It was the prayer of Jesus that uphold the faith of Peter not to fail.
Many are looking for god wrongly by running from church building to another building, giving self to empty promises before god, counting on a man but not committed to God (the evidence of knowing about God but not know God.)
Knowing about God but not know God is prevalent (widespread) even among many acclaimed believers and among the ones with titles (pastors, Bishop, Prophet) in the house of God.
Are you running after a man posing in the name of a great man of God but not KNOW GOD to turn aside to God?
Do you KNOW GOD?
Do you know that it is possible in the journey of life, to be on the right track but remain trapped without knowing to move forward?
Have you been called out of religion into the reality of Christ, knowing to do according to His word?
Prayer for today: Ask from God to turn away your eyes from looking at worthless things, and to revive you in His way.