We have all confessed to be children of the living God. We talk a great game, We praise Him with our mouth, we say all the right things when approached by those who are lost, and we are quick to give Him a hand praise, but do we give Him a heart praise? Is our worship of Him from the heart, or is it just lip service? Do you live the life or just talk about it.
Here Jesus tells us that with our mouth we do praise Him , yet our hearts are far from Him. See we talk one way while our walk leads us in a different direction. We say the right things but we often fall short when we are called to do the right thing. The word say, we must worship God in spirit and in truth, yet we fool ourselves into thinking we are worshipping God, when we are in fact in a carnal state of mind. It seems the things closest to our hearts, are the material things of this world. We have begun to love things more than we do people, spending more time and energy caring and planning for the things of the carnal man than they do preparing for the spiritual man. We might feed the carnal man 3 or 4 times a day while the spirit man is lucky to eat once a week, and then we want to feed him junk food, sweets, stuff that taste good but is not really good for us. Some of us are on a spiritual diet, seeking a low calorie gospel, scared we might become spiritually over weight. Some of us are physical giants, carrying around spiritual midgets inside.
We say God is the head of our life , yet He gets the tail end of our service, the last part of our day and the end of our week end. The spirit man is not concerned about carnal things, no the spirit man is moved by the love shared one to another. Let us surrender our hearts to Christ, spend more time with the spirit man that we might be a better, more effective witness to a dying world, and give more than just good lip service. Let us begin to live the life we talk about.
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