You are
not comfortable when you recognize that to get closer to God, more of who you are must be revealed - while in drifting away more of who you are can be
concealed. Are you with me?
I have
come to believe that the great majority of us, once we recognize how God
unveils more of our true person every time we draw closer to God - we become
reluctant to drawing closer to God.
We have
already got everybody believing what we want them to
believe about us.
Oh how
much joy and peace, comfort and blessing we forfeit in order to appear to others to be what we
are not.
Should I
go on?
I believe
that we live in a time of fakes.
I believe
God wants to take you from one glory to another and many of you are choosing to
keep God at bay, slowly drifting away because you have come to rely on the
mystery of it all.
I don’t
want anyone to continue to believe that a
commitment to God through fear, obligation or duty is the same as a
commitment to God by willful submission.
Even
though fear, obligation and duty are motivators, people that draw near out of
fear, obligation or duty - they don’t continue well. As soon as things get better, they back off
from their commitment to God. Are you one of these people?
They
don’t continue well because God is not impressed if your heart is not in
it. You can tell when someone’s heart is
not in it, So can God. See, if you are
just playing church:
Hearts
won’t be changed.
Lives
won’t be transformed
Miracles
won’t come to pass
Your
treasure remains in the storehouse
You have
become so self sufficient that the thought of total dependency on God (not only
has not been well represented in the church) it is not expected or practiced as
it should be - in what I call - this (self-actualization bent, materialistic
society) that we live in."
Excerpt from Mystery or Mastery by Keith C. Powell copyright 2016
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