Thoughts for another day


October 29, 2010

Today's verse: Acts 5:29. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Do we worship God in our hearts or is our worship only lip service? Do we know Him the way we should know or do we feel we know Him and then live a life based on that feeling without really participating in it? And there are such questions that confront us day by day in our relationship with God. For many of us, they don't matter because our devotion to God is only surfacial and not deep. Our relationship is not experiential but peripheral and it really doesn't eat us when we come to realize how little we know God.

You may wonder how this matters particular in our day to day living. It does for this stand of us will determine whether we will do things pleasing to Him or to us. Whether everyone else is more important and we mollycoddle them rather than be obedient to God as Jesus said, they preferred human praise to the glory of God; Jn. 12:43.

We have as our Scripture today, men wholeheartedly devoted to God. They had given up everything and were ready to lay down their lives too for God and for His glory. That is why when confronted by the council, they simply said; we must obey God, than men! My friend it's difficult to be on God's side when trying circumstances come upon us or when we are persecuted for the sake of our faith. You know there are some of us who are scared even before we are questioned and we imitate people from the other religions without them even threatening us. Leave alone others, it's happened with me too. We rationalize our actions by saying; we must meld into the society first and adopt customs and traditions that they follow. Yeah we do that but next… we never get going about God's business because it was never a part of our palette! Today let's stand up for our Savior. His sacrifice and love for us is too big that we can ignore them. Then let us move to do His work, whatever the cost.