Seize the Moment – Day 1245
The Focus of Loyalty!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, August 14.
The ultimate test of your loyalty to a relationship is your focus on it. For example, a married man is a “one-woman man.” When they say yes to one another, they are saying no to all others. In the same way, God calls us to be a “one-God worshipper.” Psalm 115:1 starts, “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth.” When you commit your life to Jesus, you are vowing to worship Christ alone.
The proof of our focus on who or what we are worshipping is that we will become like it. God designed us to be His image bearers (Genesis 1:26-27). To fulfill this intent in and through our lives He gives us His Spirit to conform us into the image of His Son Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29), who is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15). Therefore, for this very reason, God calls us into a relationship with Himself through Jesus – to be the light of the world, a city on a hill who reflects the glory of God (Matthew 5:14-16).
There is a grave danger in losing focus – we no longer reflect the One we were designed to become like in the first place. Psalm 115:4-8 explains the process:
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see; they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell; they have hands, but they cannot feel; they have feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot make a sound with their throat. Those who make them will become like them, everyone who trusts in them.
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 115, meditating upon the lovingkindness of the Lord! Remove from your life today that which distracts you from true worship of God.
God bless you!
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