FAITH CAPSULE: Living life is a privilege of God.
Genesis 22
What is it that qualifies you to be alive, unlike ones that would have loved to be having a life but not alive anymore?
The mercy of God has kept those alive not because of knowing to live life better.
Living life is not a right, but it is the privilege of God to be alive.
Are you taking God for granted, for His gift of life that you have?
God, the Creator, creates all to exist for His glory.
Revelations 4:11 declares, “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.”
One that is not living life for the glory of God is taking God for granted.
Are you with excuses not to be living for the glory of God?
In your service to God, are you pleasing yourself but displeasing God? Take note that God is a long-suffering God, and none is with the license to be living life outside of existing for God, the Creator of all.
Stop taking God for granted but live life for God by lifting your hands before Him as submission with the expectation of reaching to God.
Continually, living life for God is to remain connected with God.
God is a good God that is worth for all, to be living life for His glory.
Seeking God diligently with all heart and with all soul is to find Him. Deuteronomy 4:29 speaks to all, “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.”
Among ways to live life for God, seeking God diligently instead of taking God for granted is seeking diligently, obediently to his word.
Living life to obey the word of God is a sacrifice that is consistent, costly, and not cheap.
A sacrifice that takes self away from self to give all to God is seeking God diligently, being obedient.
One that is living life obediently to the word of God fears God, is undoubtedly a treasure to God. Exodus 19:5 records, “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.”
Are you taking God for granted, not doing as commanded in His word?
Abraham lived life for the glory of God. Abraham could not withhold from the command of God but did as commanded by God, and God recognized the obedience of Abraham. Genesis 22:12 records the testimony of the word of God towards Abraham, “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 obeyed God, lived life for God by seeking God with all his heart and soul.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life acknowledging Him.