Day 98: Let's Talk About It- "Why We Serve God"

As we close out the “Let’s talk about it series” I want to bring it back to the root of why we do things and why we serve Christ in the first place.  I know we all have amazing stories of what lead us to Christ and how we got to know HIm for ourselves, and the moment we decided to give our lives to Christ. We remember the feeling of how it felt to know that you were now on a journey to eternity. It is important that we know why we serve God, and why we love GOd, and why we have chosen to live this life with CHrist. I have been asked this question a couple of times and have learned that it isn’t as complex as I made it.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

It is the breath of God running through our bodies. If it were not for him we would be lifeless creatures. He literally blew life into our nostrils and gave us a reason to live. God is the air we breathe. We are God’s greatest work of art, He formed us in His hand. He shaped and molded us. He gave us life, literal life. It comes from Him. God is the giver of life.

1 John 4:19

We love because He first loved us

God loves us so much. We respond to His goodness with love. We live our lives knowing that we are loved by the most magnificent being in all of creation. God loves us unconditionally, we didn’t do anything to receive His love and there’s nothing we can to for it to be taken away. God never needed a reason to love us, he just does.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, He gave his only son, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.

This is an example of how great God’s love is. He sent His own son, His child for us. He made His son, Jesus, the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. Because He loves us so much that He cannot bear to be separate for us, He is in constant pursuit of our hearts. So He made a way for us to be cleansed and forgiven and the opportunity to live an eternal life, through Christ. He wants a relationship with us, and Jesus is our direct line to Him. He made a way for us to have a constant connection to Him. God is just that great.

There are so many reasons as to why we serve God, and why we choose to life this lifestyle and continue to make that choice everyday.

God is love

God is Faithful

God is merciful

God is gracious

God is unfailing

God is patient

God is the giver of life and everything in it.,,

The list goes on.

For me I have learned that I am nothing without God. I don’t exist without Him and I cannot live apart from Him. I have seen God’s faithfulness first hand, and I have learned to trust him more and more with my life. God is the only person who has never let me down. God is the only person who is constantly there for me even when I didn’t acknowledge His presence in my life. I need God every second of everyday. But I also want Him near me every second of everyday, I’m clingy when it comes to my relationship with God, I have to be under Him always. I have to or I won’t make it. There's nothing I can do without God and there is nothing I can’t do with God. Most importantly, I love Him. I love God with every piece of my being, I love Him so much and I know that it will never add up to how much He loves me. I fell in love with God, and I fall deeper for Him everyday. He is my everything.

Reflection

1. Why do you serve God?

Prayer Time

Take the time to thank God for who He is. Take this time to honor and give reverence to God. Just thank Him, talk to Him about what He means to you. Praise God, just honor and glorify Him. He is worthy.

I love you, I hope you have an amazing day or evening. Make sure you share this with someone, share your story with someone today, and make sure you come back tomorrow for Day 99! Have an awesome Day!.

Day 76: This One Thing I Ask

Psalms 27:4

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.

When I first read this scripture I was captivated by it. This scripture is so beautifully profound. As David is telling God, if there is anything you can give me, one thing, allow me to dwell in your house all the days of my life. Keep me near you Lord. That’s the one thing He wants. Out of everything he has or had, the man was a king he was rich, He could have anything He wanted. But over all that, He wants to dwell in the house of the Lord, every single day for the rest of His life.

Then He goes on to say that He wants to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. We think of God as many things, rarely do we think of Him as beautiful. And I don’t mean the physical beauty and none of us have ever seen God physically, but beauty as in essence. God is the type of person that we don’t need to see to know He’s beautiful.

It’s like speaking with a person who is blind, the eyes of a blind (wo)man are fascinating. When asked how they know that someone is beautiful, their response would be something like beauty isn’t always seen. Beauty is deeper than the skin. Beauty lies in the essence or soul of a person. Or like falling in love with a person, may times I’ve heard men say about their wives, “I didn’t have to see her to know she was beautiful”. That is how it is when thinking about the beauty of God. It is not physically it is the very nature of God, that makes Him beautiful, His essence. The spirit of God is beautiful. That we can gaze at His beauty forever and find something even more beautiful about Him everyday. We will rest in His beauty and never find that it will fade. This is what David wants to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord.

To inquire means to investigate, look into, or ask of someone. David wants to learn and grow with God. All the days of His life He will be in the temple seeking answers looking into this relationship with God, the most beautiful being in all existence.

This is all He wants, out everything He could have David chooses to be up under God, to dwell in His house, gaze upon His beauty and inquire in His temple. I think David was onto something. I think David knew, He had a knowledge of what real living looked like. He knew that if He had everything and not God He had nothing at all. But He knew that with God he had everything even if that meant his earthly possessions were bare. God can give us anything we want, and anything we ask, but what would that one thing be. David wanted eternity with the one true King. He wanted to be in the presence of the Lord for all His days. That’s what real living is, Out of everything I ask for and out of everything you have given me, here is the one thing I want more than anything,that  is to be close to you. That is all I ask. Everything I need is where you are, everything I want is where you are.  I love that attitude, I love that request, and I love that this is something that David said He will seek. I will seek your presence, I will seek your comfort, and your face, I will seek your beauty so that I can gaze upon it. So I can sit in your presence all my days. This is what I want Lord. This is a beautiful scripture to meditate and dwell upon.

Reflection

1. If you could ask God for one thing what would it be?

Prayer Time

Meditate on the scripture, and talk to God. Whatever you feel led to pray about to today, talk to God about it. This is between you and Him.

I love you, I hope you have an amazing day or evening. Share this with someone and make sure you come back tomorrow for Day 77!