But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29 KJV)
God wants to fulfill His promises to us, to help us to be all we can be in Him, and help us fulfill our resolutions each year. God is also a jealous god and when we put other gods before Him, He is less inclined to help us. Only through repentance and forgiveness can we hope to receive all God has for us.
There are no halfways with God; it’s an all-or-nothing proposal with Him. He wants you to give up all the false gods you put before Him.
He’s not just talking about the gods of the pagans, but things you may not even think of as gods, like money, food, sex, alcohol, drugs, gambling, and computer games, just to name a few. Some of these may not seem to be false gods to you and used the way God intended they are fine, but when abused like the others they quickly move into that category. Anything used for other than God’s purpose is abuse and we put ourselves and the habit ahead of God.
We need food to live, but we don’t need to overeat to love. We may need prescription drugs to help us through medical situations caused by other abuses, but to continue their use after the situation is resolved is to put the drugs ahead of God.
When will we, mere humans created in God’s image, acknowledge our humanness, the fact that we are finite beings? Only by turning to God, away from our sins and false gods, can we have any hope of achieving our goals. But, then again, whose goals are we aiming to achieve, ours or God’s?
We should be striving to achieve God’s will; however, I’m thinking that most of us are working toward our own goals. When we rely on ourselves and our false gods, we can only be working on our own goals, for if we are working for God’s goals there is no place for sin and false gods.
This kind of reminds me of the GPS (Global Positioning System) in my car. Most of the times it is quite accurate and can get me to where I need to be. The times when it’s not so accurate, the cause is a human problem like it needs updated or I have input the wrong info. But besides those few times, in general it does the job.
Well, as long as I follow the commands the GPS is giving I get to the proper destination. Sometimes, though, I don’t like or I misunderstand the instructions. I decide to second guess the GPS, and I turn one turn to soon and end up in the wrong place or lost. Then I have to turn around and find my way. The GPS helps after my presumptive actions, but she helps with an attitude. She repeats RECALCULATING until I am back on track.
Our relationship with God is a lot like mine with the GPS. He knows the destination and supplies the directions and unless we take it upon ourselves and go in our own direction, we will reach God’s destination. Fortunately for us, when we go in our own direction and turn down those streets of sin or introduce a false god; instead of developing a GPS attitude and recalculating to exclude us, God waits patiently and gently guides we back to the right road.
After making too many wrong turns and receiving GPS attitude, the time has come to follow God’s lead and actually let Him lead the way. Time to discard sin and false gods in favor of the one and only God who will save me. Time to dedicate my whole heart and soul to God, time to see the Lord.
Time for God Powered Salvation.
Copyright 2014 Christina Weigand
Christina Weigand
Christina Weigand’s a writer, wife, and mother of four. She is also Nana to three granddaughters. She lives with her husband and youngest daughter in Cranberry Twp. Pennsylvania, returning there after a short sabbatical in Washington. Currently, she’s working on fantasy novels and inspirational writing. Through her writing, she strives to share the Word of God and help people young and old to realize the love and mercy He has for everyone. When she’s not writing, she’s active in her local Church as a lector, Bible Study, volunteering at her daughter’s school helping the children develop a love for reading and writing. Jesus fills her home with love as she shares Him through her writing.
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