Speak, Your Servant Hears

The right heart attitude of a child of God is intently listening for your Master's voice. We, however, often times are listening to the world and don't even hear our Master's call. Jesus says if you are my friend, you will hear my voice. Jesus calls us His friend, yet we only hear Him sometimes. We need to be in the world, but not of it.

Ultimate Humiliation

In our minds, we don't deliberately disobey God. We simply do not listen to Him. That's why the children of Israel said to Moses to speak to them, less God speak to them. They probably felt disobeying Moses was better than disobeying God. The problem is that ultimately our disobedience will be brought before us and we will experience the ultimate shame and humiliation. And that's the way it is with the Greater than Moses representative of God in Jesus Christ. If we love Him, we will obey Him.

The Vanity of Unbelief

It is impossible to deny the existenance of an all-knowing all-sovereign God. The natural man wants to avoid this realtiy and they hope against hope that with the passage of time, that this all aspiring feeling of the presence of God will dwindle. However, men in the absence of God are in no wise superior to brute beasts and in many respects far more miserable. It is as Plato wrote:"the highest good of the soul is likeness to God, where, when the soul has grasped the knowledge of God.

Idols or idolotry?

Spiritual blindness is not being able to see what is put before you. God has revealed himself in many ways. Consider the ocean who knows its boundries or the sun who doesn't fail to show up on time. However, we then compare that with our own experiences. Experiences have a way of hardening the heart and dimming the eyes. It is time to set aside the experiences of fallen man and put on the God who is the creator of the universe.

Feed My Sheep

When you are discipling another believer, it is likely that they will draw their spiritual energy from you rather than Christ. At times, it may feel as though your spiritual service is exhausted, but it is important to remember your first love. Christ brought you up in the faith so that you can rely on him for your nourishment. So when you are feeling weary, go back to Him who sent you.

The Cost of Discipleship

If we pray the prayer to be sanctified, many do not know what they are asking? Sanctification is a work of God that separates us from the world for His sake. It is loving the Lord with all our hearts, soul, strength, and mind. It may sound good to pray for such a thing, but who is prepared to do that? Are you willing to give all that you have away to follow Christ, because that is what you are asking?

Seeking Christ

It is interesting that God says his name is I am, but we are forever calling out am I? To call I am is to be seeking God Almighty, but the one who calls out am I is headed for physical and spiritual destruction. In our daily prayers, we should seek the person of Christ, because when you find him, you find the answers to your prayers.