October 28, 2024
Monday
What would happen if all the church members showed up for church on one Sunday? There would be traffic jams. There would be a lack of parking. The seats would be more than filled for people would be carrying in chairs. People might not get to sit in the seat they have been sitting in for over thirty years. The preachers would think they had gone to heaven.
But it hasn't happened. It is not likely it will happen if there isn't a great revival and even then, I doubt if all the church members would show up. Somehow, people have gotten the idea that the God who sent His Son to die for them is more boring than the life they can live on the outside. They would rather attend sporting events or even practice a sport than come to church. They would rather drink coffee and watch the sun traverse across the sky than to go to church.
Do you really believe that God would sacrifice His Son just so that you would be bored? Is there some divine prank being played on all the Christians attending church? Or is it that some people love God more than others? Some people have decided that it is better to be God's slave than to be out on their own. They have decided that walking with Him is much better than walking on their own. They seem to be allowing the Holy Spirit to lead their lives. They seem to really know God.
Thinking that a Christian is his own to do whatever he pleases is a lie from the devil. We have been bought by the blood of Jesus. We have no right to call the shots when they deviate from getting or staying close to our Lord. The Holy Spirit who lives in us longs for us to walk with the Father. He knows that this is where true joy resides.
I know that God did not save us to bore us. He did not save us so that we could simply live like we don't know Him. He saved us for Himself. He calls us to Himself.
But those who can't see this have never been able to truly know what this is. On the outside, the Christian life looks boring. On the inside, when God speaks, leads, provides and works the believer is brought into His presence with worship on His lips. He prays because knows to whom he is talking. He reads the scriptures that tell the stories of God and move him even closer. He tells others because it is the most exciting thing he has ever experienced.
If Christians really knew this experientially, our churches would all be full this Sunday.
We are His. It is why Jesus came for us.
1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (NASB 2020)19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
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