Thoughts for another day

June 12, 2014.

Today's verse:  Mal. 1:6. A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is the [reverent] fear due Me? (Amplified Bible – copyright ack.)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

See the Word of the Lord my friend and His angst within the Lord’s heart. Hear His sorrow as He says the Word for He says, ‘a son honors his father and a servant his master; but despite His being a father, there is no honor to Him and despite being Master, there is no reverence or fear of Him.  And you think this isn’t for you because God said this to His people Israel through the mouth of Malachi many years and not for you?  Then perhaps you and I need to re-look at what’s happening out there in our churches and more importantly in our hearts.

I ask this of my Christian brothers and sisters: where’s the fear of the Lord in you.  Where has the respect, the awe, the reverential fear for the Lord gone?  For I see what’s happening in the churches and gathering places and other places where people gather to ‘worship’ the Lord; there’s everything else but worship to His Name.   The leaders spew out nonsense in the Name of God, day in and day out, always talking of the good things coming the people’s way, but never of the kind of life God wants them to lead.   They talk about prosperity and bright future and great things but they never talk to people that they need to be leaning on God to get these things.

Rarely in our churches and our crusades are we told to pray for long hours; nor are we told to be holy before God for God wants us to be holy.  Nobody talks about the will of God and also that we are to give for God loves it when we give to the least of the people but we’re told we must give to them for when you give them they say God will work in your favor!  Frankly I don’t know whether God has told us to give them; and even I give sometimes, but nothing happens and I know if I go to them, they’ll say, you didn’t give cheerfully!   All I know is that I follow a God who wants me to be holy.  He wants me to spend time with Him to honor Him and revere His Name and to believe that as He passes by when I’m prostrate before Him, He will bless me.  Yes He will, for then He knows I will bless His Name in all the earth and bring all glory to Him.