Where is My Honor? Part 2
Matthew 15:8
“This people draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
We should give the best we have to please the God who gave the best He had.
When we say we love Him, it should not be empty words but backed up with action. We are supposed to be living with Christ, yet we only spend our leftover time with Him: leftover worship, praise, and prayer. Why is God always the last person we give honor to? Why is God the last person we praise when He has done so much for us? It should be that we never consider man before God, that what we could never offer to presidents, or even our spouses, we dare not give to God.
Romans 6:14 admonishes that because we are under the dispensation of grace, there is really no excuse as to why we cannot release everything for the cross. We say that we love the Lord, yet oftentimes we just deceive ourselves. Jesus laid down His life for us, now we too must lay down our lives and allow him to rise up within us. When we struggle with doing the things of the Lord, it means we are not ready to lay our lives down for Him. Yet, the bride makes herself ready. If you want to marry Jesus, you must leave everything. How we live our lives everyday of the week matters to Jesus, not just Sundays.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (John 4:23).
To worship God in spirit is to do so with our whole heart. To worship God in truth is to do so according to the pattern of the Word. The Word is Jesus Himself, so only through His Spirit can we honor God because no man comes unto the Father except by Christ.
I pray that as you draw near to God, the Lord will perfect all that concerns you in the name of Jesus Christ. As you hunger and thirst after righteousness, I pray that every Absalom spirit that has stolen your heart, the heart meant for the King of Kings, will be hanged on the oak tree in Jesus’ name.
