“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:” Job 13:15a KJV
Trusting God is a choice!
It's one thing to trust Him in little thongs and quite another, in the BIG!
It's one thing to trust Him when all's well and quite another when our world falls apart!
That's when "what's in your heart" becomes so important!
When the "front line" in our war is no longer looked at through binoculars, but with our very eyes; when the enemy is close enough to see "the whites of his eyes", you'd better have your weapons ready! The last minute is not the time to start loading!
An ambush is awaiting us all and we cannot say, "we have not been warned!"
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
1 Peter 5:8 KJV
Are you vigilant? Or are you asleep? Will the enemy take you out or will you live to battle another day?
This hard place you are in is not a surprise to God! It has a purpose!
“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” 1 Peter 5:10 KJV
Will you allow God to have His WAY in your life or will you rebel? Will you forsake Him? Will you fall away, in the testing of your faith?
Will you trust Him in ALL thIngs?
We are required to have no other gods before Him! It's a commandment, not an option!
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 KJV
Anyone and anything can be an idol in our lives! An idol is a false god! Something or someone we love! Something or someone we worship! And most often that "someone" is our children! Whether they be infants or grown, we love them so greatly we often say we "love them with our whole heart"! They usurp a place that only God should have, (our whole heart) and that is sin!
“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” Deuteronomy 6:5 KJV
He has to have your whole heart!
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Matthew 22:37-39 KJV
If you love Him with your whole heart then you will also love your neighbor and yourself! However, if you love someone else with your whole heart, then He is not your LORD!
Putting our children on the altar; giving them to God is the hardest thing a parent can do, but it is a must, if we are to be obedient!
“And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.” Genesis 22:2 KJV
What God required of Abraham in the physical, He also requires of us in the spiritual!
Requires!
No option!
No argument!
No exception!
And the harder it is, the more important the sacrifice is for our salvation!
He is coming back for a Bride without spot or wrinkle! Don't let your idol be the blemish in your wedding dress!
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
Ephesians 5:27 KJV
We think He is not serious about this stuff! I got news for you! He is very serious! Dead serious!
If you believe you are going to heaven; that you are "saved", yet you love your children more than you do God, you are seriously mistaken! You are bound for hell!
Yes, He is a God of love!
And He wants all of yours!
Repent of your sin!
When you refuse to surrender your sons or daughters, to God, it says you don't trust Him to care for them! It says to Him that you believe that He is not capable and that you are better able to save them! You make yourself to be god! THIS is THE hard thing!
Abraham trusted God! He knew He was able to care for his only son! He believed God! He knew He was able to raise his son from the dead, because He IS God! His own body had been as good as dead, and God brought it back to life so that he was able to father Isaac! He knew God!
“And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.” Genesis 22:8, 13 KJV
I will trust God!
I will love Him with my whole heart!
I will have no other gods before Him!
I will obey!
Even if He doesn't provide a ram!
Will you?
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 11/21/14
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