Reality Check - BE SERIOUS WITH GOD

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Luke 9:62

But Jesus told him, “Anyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God.”


God takes us seriously, He is God, He does not play around. So when you come to Him you must know what you are doing.


Many miss this fact and they allow so many things to take their mind away from the most important things. The Lord does not bother us, He allows us to live our life here on earth but just as He commanded the first man in the beginning, we should know when not to cross the line.


When you commit to God stay in that commitment it is not a game or a joke it is real!


Psalms 61:5

For you have heard my vows, O God. You have given me an inheritance reserved for those who fear your name.


Colossians 3:24

Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.


Two major things in this Psalm:


Psalms 61:8

Then I will sing praises to your name forever as I fulfill my vows each day.


* Praise to His name forever and

* fulfilling our vow.


Do not be hasty to vow to the Lord. For He takes it seriously. Why the rush, He does not compel you. Why then play around with it.


See the way the Preacher explains it:


Ecclesiastes 5:4-7

When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.

It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.

Don’t let your mouth make you sin. And don’t defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved.

Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead.


Don't play around with vows, for you could take it for granted but the recorder does not. Be serious with God!


Acts 18:18

Paul stayed a while longer in Corinth, but then it was time to take leave of his friends. Saying his good-byes, he sailed for Syria, Priscilla and Aquila with him. Before boarding the ship in the harbor town of Cenchrea, he had his head shaved as part of a vow he had taken.


These are times when we have believers playing around, taking lightly spiritual matters. Yes, for all things we stand for have been made a mockery of, by those who do not believe or practice false religions and by those who discern spiritual things by philosophy and intellect.


The worst being those who use the name of the Lord to fleece the flock, and peddle lies and deceit. Then those who call upon the name of the Lord and yet have not departed from iniquity.


In all, the truth cannot be changed, Christ remains all in all, for in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily.


May we never derail, no matter how strong the argument, God is not the author of confusion. He will not save the world through His Son and yet create another messiah. Do not play around for He does not.


1 Timothy 2:5

For, There is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus.


TAKE GOD SERIOUSLY, for He takes us seriously.


We will not err, so help us Good Lord.


Glory to God forevermore.


We are victorious.


Love

@the watcher.

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