What do you like to do the most? (Part IV)
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- Apr
- 2016
Do you see how your desires seek self-honor and self-glory? Do you see why God teaches us to serve Him and to stay away from any personal greed?
You can see that the things of God have nothing to do with the “world” in which we were created, or what we think is best for us; it has nothing to do with the fact that the we feel good about what we do, or the feeing of being “all-powerful” because we have grown in certain areas.
We all have something considered “beautiful” in our own eyes and we set our own priorities. These priorities can be many things, such as: beauty, fashion, fame, the security of being well seen and accepted by all, etc.
“… that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” (Gn.6: 2)
The beauty of those women in which the children of men were attracted to can be referred to as the “gold” and not the altar. That is, when you nurture any intention other than just to serve and honor God.
Further ahead, the Bible states that God repented in creating mankind precisely because of the wickedness of his heart. The same corrupt heart that sometimes you say is new, wants to take the place of God. So the Bible says: “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” (Jr.17: 9)
We can only receive a new heart when we are sensitive to God’s voice not to the “beauty” of what our eyes covet.
And I am the one who makes that choice!
Do not put your eyes on anything or anyone other than Him. Being close to me or anyone else, won’t guarantee you any type of assurance. That’s why, sometimes, it’s better to be alone even if you think no one is sees you, because this way you will only draw God’s attention. And that is the best thing… much more than getting the attention from others, because when we call the attention of the Father, He honors us!
Continued next week…
Zukiswa Kongisa
6th May 2016 at 20:59
Thank you for sharing Mrs V, if we truly examine ourselves we will indeed see that our eyes are on the gold or the Altar. If there is one thing I learned with God, He’s a jealous God and doesn’t want to share us neither with our hearts nor with this world so that why it’s essential that each of us we need to long for Him more than we do for this world and our heart desires.
Jasmine
6th May 2016 at 7:49
I think it is very easy to have our eyes on the ‘gold’ and much harder to have our eyes on God’s will, especially as we do not know all of it and cannot see His will. For sure, though, what God wants is the greatest and best for us.
lerato
5th May 2016 at 10:55
this is very strong put God above every thing in my life i will surely do that
Sheila Mo
4th May 2016 at 6:14
Thank you Mrs Viviane Freitas for sharing.The subject of this series on it’s own has shaken me bit.I’ve read this very same post a while ago and today the topic grabbed my attention..I had to even read it twice again!Anything that I like to do most has to be for the glory do God.I”ll be watching myself in this regard…
Sheila Mo
Lolibeth Tigmo
3rd May 2016 at 15:59
It is very essential to examine ourself especially those who called to be the servants of the most High what is the status of our personal relatioship with our Lord as pass by many years doing the work of God sometimes as we are still in flesh and seeing things we might fall into things that displeasing God that might cause from seed to root of the situation. It is very important to walk in Spirit not by sight and reject our flesh desire which often lead by emotion and we shouldn’t allow emotion overpowering us but by intelligent. Thank you for this reminder for us Mrs. Viviane??
Nayeli Lozano
3rd May 2016 at 3:37
Thank you! Sometimes it’s good to remind ourselves that the only one we should worry about making happy is the Lord. That it’s more important to have that covenant with our Father in heavan than with a human here on Earth. He will truly honour us when we try to get His attention. Even if we stand alone.