Are you disturbed by promises of benefits and blessings currently seen on TV, in your mailbox, or heard on TV? I get a little sick to my stomach every time I hear the phrase, "And for your love gift of $20, you'll receive ..." Invariably it is some trinket or another that is meant to somehow improve your spiritual life. I wonder if those that are participating in this practice have ever read the following:
When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. John 2:15 [NKJV]
Scripture is silent on what happened with the patrons of the money changers, but it's not hard to imagine the shame and embarrassment they may have felt. If their motive was to satisfy some religious obligation with the least possible effort, then their hearts most likely burned within them as the Spirit convicted them.
At that, brothers and sisters, brings us to the most important facet of all of this. What is the condition of the heart? Is it set on pleasing the Lord no matter what the cost? To be in that condition is to be aligned with the will of God.
Be encouraged, Jose
No comments:
Post a Comment