“Oh, my child! Why
haven't you listened to me?” He speaks a hard, but necessary, word this morning
to my you and to me. “What you do speaks louder than what you say. You say one
thing and do another. You instruct another in my ways, but then, without
conscience, do the very thing you warned against. My Word calls for honesty and
integrity in all areas of your life. There is no slack in this truth. When your
witness does not support what you say is true, then you make my sacrifice
worthless. It breaks my heart just as my body was broken for you. My blood was
shed so that you might walk in newness of life-not wallow in the dire filth of
your past. You have rationalized your actions until you no longer hear my gentle
leading. I wait for you to hear. I long for you to hear. Give up the past ways
that have defined you. Give up the things in your life that bring death. Don't
get to the place where you have made so many excuses that you no longer feel my
conviction. I want you to see that what you do does not support the faith you
speak of so casually. I am not casual. I am life, and I wait for you to return
to me. You cannot correct or rebuke or encourage another with patience and
careful instruction if what you say is not realized in your own life. Live your
life filled with my Word, and allow that Word to accomplish what it was sent to
accomplish-new life in me. I love you child, and I long for you to hear my
heart.”
This is hard, but I
need to hear it again and again. How about you? The moment that I believe I
understand all the incredible depths of my Lord is the moment I no longer grow
spiritually. The moment that He becomes casual to me is the moment that I have
placed other things before Him. The moment that my life does not support what I
say is the moment I speak death instead of life. The moment I believe I have
arrived is the moment that I have failed.
Today I give Him my
life again. I lay all on His altar. I long only to hear His heart.
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