Dearest Saints
When I think of everything in a nutshell what Christianity is about, I come up with the simplicity of having that wonderful intimate relationship with God. It's that simple. I believe we complicate God and Christianity or make it out to be something other than first growing towards having a deeper relationship with Him each day. I believe the more we develop that loving relationship with Him, we become stronger in Him to fulfill His desires and instructions found in His Word. I also believe that as David would say, that when we love His laws and consider Him more than gold or silver (because we have that wonderful relationship with Him), we detest everything else that doesn't give God the glory or we fail to have that intimate relationship He wants us to have with Him (Read Psalm 119:127,128).
When I asked Him in to my life to be my Lord and personal Saviour, I have to admit that I wasn't making Him Lord over my life simply because I failed to acknowledge Him and His presence continually in my life like we should. When we really ask Him to be Lord over our life, do we just resort by inviting Him only to help us with some larger circumstances of our lives? Do we give Him only a few moments of our time to acknowledge His sweet presence in a given day? As He continues to teach me, I believe we serve a God who not only wants to be involved in helping us make major decisions, but also in every tiny detail of our lives. When I think of it, if I just want to go for a drive in the countryside, I want to be conscious of His presence and invite Him to sit with me and go for a drive and even ask Him where would He like to go? We don't say these things because we don't believe He is not already present with us, but we do this to allow our hearts to open up to Him. When those of you who like to go shopping, He would like you to invite Him to go shopping with you and help you choose a location to pick out the best items for the best prices in any of the stores. If/when we go play golf or any other sports, do we invite Him to tag along with us, or even ask to help us hit a better ball or just enjoy the sport? When I go to work before I even turn on the computer, am I trying to consciously make every attempt to ask Him to govern my day and invite Him to help me get projects done and be His employee whom He can be pleased with?
I think many times, we put God only in to some "religious activity" when really, He wants us to involve Him in every area of our lives. When we go out to visit, or have visitors in our home, or if we happen to be having dinner alone at home, do we invite Him to dine with us so we can enjoy His sweet presence? Especially when I type in many of these messages or when answering a prayer, I don't dare want to not acknowledge His help in any of these. Do we invite Him everywhere we go or whatever we are doing during our spare time? When we acknowledge Him in all our ways(Prov 3:6), He promises to lead us down the right path. This tells me that when He directs our paths, He works out everything in our life. I truly believe in order to be stronger in the Lord, it's really all about inviting Him and acknowledging Him in every aspect of our lives. Even to the point of asking Him to help us brush our teeth, comb our hair, iron our cloting, etc! He loves us so much He tells us that He knows the numbers of hairs on our head (Luke 12:7), which to me means to even ask Him to help us find the right shampoo and/or purchase the best products to look after our body, which is His temple.
Many times, I notice people asking/praying to God to "be with Brother/Sister so and so". I personally don't think we need to pray and ask God something He already told us, because He promises us that He never leaves us nor will ever forsake us (Heb 13:5). Because He is so faithful to His promises, I think the better prayer for us to pray is "Lord, help me to acknowledge You in all my ways". This puts the emphasis on knowing that He is already faithful (knowing He never leaves us), but our need to ask Him to help us acknowledge Him more and more into our daily lives.
When it all comes down to it, He wants us to involve Him in every aspect of our lives and every detail of our lives because this is one way of knowing He loves and cares for each of us because He cares about the little details equally to the big agendas in our lives. When you know someone who loves you so much, you will want them to be involved with you in every aspect of your daily activities. The same thing is with God. If we want to acknowledge our loved ones this much, shouldn't we acknowledge the One who loves us that much more? Too many people in our nation only cry out to God and acknowledge Him when things go wrong, but fail to thank Him when things are going good. Some only acknowledge Him just on Sundays or only a few minutes in any given day or when we have major and important decisions to make. We need to encourage one another to acknowledge Him in every part of our day and every part of our activity in our lives because I believe He wants us to open our heart to involve Him and invite Him into every detail of our lives. We simply deceive ourselves when we don't think we need His help in every detail of our lives in the first place. When we know He loves us greatly, we are going to want to involve Him in every area of our life.
In a nutshell, I believe this is the simplicity and entirety of what Christianity is all about. To be an example of acknowledging and inviting Him to be Lord over "ALL" of our daily activities. We wouldn't be in existence and wouldn't be enjoying every aspect of life if it weren't for His great love and mercy towards us in the first place. I believe we are stronger in the Lord by having much more confidence in Him when we choose to have this wonderful rich deep relationship He so much wants us to have with Him. As He wants that relationship with us, the question is, how much are we willing to acknowledge Him in our daily activities? Religion is complicated. Christianity is simple. Let's not complicate ourselves from having that wonderful relationship with our dear Lord first and foremost.
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In the Matchless Name of Jesus
Richard
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