[Discoveries] 01-28-07 What God wants

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*Do you think all GOD wants are sacrifices -- empty rituals just for 
show? -- 1 Samuel 15:22 The Message*/

How easy it is to get lured into a performance! Jesus reserved His 
sharpest criticism for religionists and hypocrites.

How do we steer clear of a performance-based religion?

Let's go back to the Garden. Adam and Eve sinned. They hid. They sewed 
fig leaves. But the fig leaves and the Garden could not cover their 
folly and their sin. Only God Himself could clothe them and take away 
their nakedness.

There are two honesties at work here. One is honesty with ourselves. We 
must face who we truly are. There is no shortcut for this. Until we are 
honest with ourselves, we cannot move forward in the Christian life. The 
second is honesty with God. That means we bring it all to Him -- our 
hate, our shame, our apathy, our pride, our fear, our desires -- 
whatever we find inside.

This is where transformation takes place. When we bring ourselves, naked 
and bankrupt, to God, we discover a God we didn't know was there. Adam 
and Eve didn't know that the Lord would clothe them. The leper didn't 
know that Jesus would touch him. The woman caught in adultery didn't 
know that Jesus would free her. Even Peter didn't know that Jesus would 
restore him.

Whatever God has for us will be found when we throw away the show, and 
and choose the path of honesty.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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