a child of god
this is the way, run in it
Our very lives can be given to God as worship.
You know how when you love and live with someone, you direct your thoughts, time, attention towards them? We spend so much time angsting over how people view us or feel about us - that all takes time and energy and spirit. When we have felt the love of God, the LORD God almighty, the only true and living God, whom this world saw and experienced in the body and life of Jesus and whom the world now sees through you and me who belong to God through Jesus (sobering thought, isn't it?), when we belong to God in that way, then our time and energy and spirit and heart and hope should be focused on Him, on God, on Jesus and God the Holy Spirit who comes to live inside those who believe in Jesus. We can live our lives in such a way that we live them for God. We can give Him our time and attention. When He wants us to stop and care for someone else, we do it, because He would have and His Spirit is prompting us to do the same. When He wants to spend some time with us at the end of the day, in prayer, in sung worship, in reading His word, the Bible, and learning from Him, we do it - because that is what sustains us in this life spiritually. We have to be fed physically. We have to be fed spiritually as well, and God and His Spirit and His Word is where we get that food. Jesus Himself said that this kind of spiritual food is better than physical food - and He knew what it meant to be hungry physically. Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 8:3 to refute the devil when he was trying to tempt Jesus into sinning in the desert, "But Jesus answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" Jesus even puzzled the disciples when they came back with lunch to the well where Jesus had just been talking with the Samaritan woman, and He said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about" (John 4:32). He was talking about doing the work of God the Father was better than physical food, more satisfying to do kingdom work than eating, even though He was physically hungry. Do we know what it means to be hungry spiritually? Have you ever had a promise from God, a word from God that you were praying for and the hunger to see it come to pass grew as you waited and prayed for it? Once we have encountered God personally, spiritually, we want more - more of Him, more of life in Him. It is better than physical food, even though we need physical food. Even more do we need spiritual food! This is a biblical principle. Are we feeding ourselves in God's presence? Are we feeding the people of God we live and worship among with true spiritual food? Are we giving our lives - all of us - to God in worship? As His people, that is who we are and what we should be doing. And, it is better than anything else. The LORD God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - He is better than anything else.
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