Where do you keep God? Such a great question to soul search with. Where do you keep God? Do you keep Him on the wall or around your neck? Im Christian hence the crucifix type of thing. Maybe you have a certain room inside your house where you keep your crucifix and maybe some pictures of Jesus. Maybe you keep God in your Bible since thats where His words are, but then maybe you keep your bible on your bookshelf. Some of us may keep God in a month of the year, a week of the month, a day of the week, or an hour of the day. Some of us even further keep God in one hour of one day of one week per month, and some of us only limit Him to two hours of one day per week. Some of us even give Him one hour two days a week. Some keep God in a two minute prayer in the morning, while others keep Him in a 5 minute prayer before bed. Maybe for you He lives in your thirty second prayer before you eat. Perhaps you keep your God in a building down town, or perhaps you keep Him with a friend who seems to be tight with Him. Maybe for you God lives in a rule or a way of life. Could the concept of God be for some of you all the fun things youre told not to do. Its not so outrageous to think that some of you keep God as a warden keeping a watchful eye just waiting for you to screw up so He can punish you. Maybe you keep God as non-existent out of the hope that if He isnt real you arent a sinner. Maybe you keep God blackballed from your life because someone close to you died and you think they should have been the one exception in this world to death. Maybe you cant see where im going with this, but chances are if you are still reading then you most likely already get the point. So what is my point? my point is this; Wherever you keep God in your life is where you decide He is welcome. Gods power is limitless, Its you who sets the boundaries of where and when in your life He is welcome. Some of us are fortunate to have teachers in our lives, others of us convince ourselves we can figure it out alone because were to lazy or afraid to open ourselves up. That was me, lazy and afraid, but I was blessed with people praying for me and I finally, with folgers in my cup, experienced the best part of waking up....Living in Gods love. So we all know all the tiny restricting places we can keep God in our lives, but lets finish this up the best way we can, with what GOD wants! Now I can go on and say God wants this and God wants that, but God wants me to put my words aside and take it to scripture so God can tell you what God wants. Matthew 6:25-34 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Philippians 4:6-9 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. So with all of that I leave you with this one golden truth: The one true living God of everything wants to be kept in every single big or little aspect of your life. He wants to live in every room of your house, and on every page of every book in all your shelves. He wants to live in every moment you live in. He wants to be in the front and the back of your mind. He wants to live in the top and the bottom of your heart. God wants to rule every part of your life for only one reason...God loves you!!! and if there is an area in your life that you are keeping from God then there is an area in your life that is being mismanaged and you are somehow suffering from that. God loves you!! and if you dont believe this to be true for any reason whatsoever then you have been convinced of a lie and are missing out on the single greatest part of being alive- Heavenly Father I pray that my words may only ever serve Your purpose for Your kingdom and your glory! In the name of my king, Your Son, Jesus Christ i humbly pray to You- AMEN!
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:25:40 +0000
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