Irreverence and our warped view of God.
Oftentimes, we forget from where God
picked us up. There are sinners today who will become saints tomorrow, whether
we like it or not. All these details are things hidden from us as humans but
because we want to have our way by all means, we throw prayers to the god we
can control to do our bidding.
It is not only in our prayers
that our irreverence shows, it also shows in our preaching. Many of us no
longer lead people to faith in Christ; we lead them to faith in ourselves. We no
longer point men to Christ, we point them to ourselves. When we speak, we do
not speak as servants and oracles of God, we speak as gods. We no longer lead
men to worship God, we lead them to worship us and other men. We make all kinds
of claims and erroneously quote Scriptures out of context to buttress what we
are saying. However, when we do all these, it only shows our level of
irreverence.
It equally shows in our
lifestyles. We just roll with the worldly tide and live lives that have no
checks and balances and still think that it does not matter. We live as though
we are the ones that will be on the judgment seat on the last day and not God. We
behave as if we are the ones that set God’s judgment standard. We do whatever
we want to do with all liberty, without any recourse to God and His word and do
not care. People cheat others and exploit only to bring their tithes to church
with the mindset that they are doing God good – He needs money so they give Him
the money He needs. We dupe people in business, lose all integrity and it does
not bother us. In our families, work and business places, we hurt people and do
not have good testimonies before people and we seem to wear the seal, “whether
you like it or not, I’m born again”. Our attitude is as if there is no day of
reckoning.
The truth is that we create the
image of the kind of god we want to serve and worship, and set out with the kind
of lifestyle we expect him to accept. We pray to him the way we want and tell
him what we want – a god that has no reverence. We indeed preach about the god
we have created and we rightly live as those who dictate to him what happens. The
truth also is that this god we created in our minds and psyche must be an idol
and not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So, are you serving the God of
Israel or are you serving an idol you have created?
If you want to serve the Living
God, let His fear show in all you do; “as he said
through his holy prophets of long ago,…to show mercy to our fathers and to
remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to rescue
us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear in
holiness and righteousness before him all our days.” Luke 1:70-75 NIV. Serve Him all
your day. God bless.
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