Do I Love God? Do you?
On a deeper note: In a continuation of my previous post. Some thoughts to chew on.
Do I want to stand before my Creator, God and review my life with Him as is? Do I want to tell Him that I was too busy to talk to Him?
Just in case you forgot we are all born guilty but God gave us redemption through His son Jesus Christ. Through the blood of Christ alone can we be found innocent but the question is this, can you be found innocent? Right now are you innocent or are you telling yourself you are to make yourself feel better? You can fool the world but you cannot fool God.
Another thought: If a man was to regularly go weeks without talking to his wife or seeing her because he is too busy working or seeing his family, or whatever else he felt like doing and this behavior continued on for weeks, months, or even years. Do you think his wife might doubt how much her husband loves her? Do you think the marriage will work? Do you think the husband really loves and desires his wife? I am going to assume your answer is No. So my question is how can one say they TRULY love God, but not talk to Him?
My question for myself is, how much do I Love God? I read my bible for the first time in about a month last night and I still struggle after 12 years to sit down and talk to God. Again, I ask myself how much do I love God? I think to myself well He understands I am busy, but then I think of Exodus 20:2, “ You shall not have no other gods before me.” And Exodus 20:4-5, “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a Jealous God”(the ending to verse 5 is pretty rough…ought to check it out!). Does God really understand I do not make time for Him?
I mean the whole reason He created man was to have fellowship with them. Does He truly understand? I mean he desired to be with man SO MUCH that He sent His son to earth in a form of a man to die for our sins! There had to be punishment for sin on earth, there was no escaping that because God is a Just God! Jesus gave up Heaven to come here and die for us and bear our punishment for our sins. That is how much He loves us, does He really understand when His “church” doesn’t spend time with Him? I mean vs 5 said He was a Jealous God…not for sure if you have been around a Jealous person before but they don’t like it when you do things that they feel you are putting in front of them! When you get back from doing it, guess what you WILL hear about it!!! So if God is a jealous God and you choose to watch tv, hang with friends, play a game, work extra hours, etc and put those things in front of Him, who is a Jealous God…do you really think He understands?
The more I think of this, the scripture Psalm 2:11, “Serve the Lord with Fear and rejoice with trembling”. Not going to say I know 100% what that fully means but I read a book and it stated, the Fear of the Lord is simply when you fear God more than you fear man. Meaning you do what God wants no matter what man thinks about you or does to you. Though I am gaining a whole new perspective of the Fear of the Lord as I ask myself these questions…I know He loves me but as a father who disciplines a disobedient child because He loves the Child, wouldn’t you think God might do that same? If the man who claims to love his wife but his desire to spend time with her is never worth giving up the other things. Does he really love her or is she just another thing to him or she understand he is busy and doesn’t have time for her? Do we really love God, when we put things infront of Him? Is God just another thing to you?
Timothy describes a group of people in the last days in 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”
Do I fall in to that category that Timothy is describing above? “a form of godliness but denying its power.” I know my answers…whats yours?
