Wednesday, October 13, 2010

"Upward Call of God"

Too many are calling God to be like us! Just listen to sermons you hear or people who speak about God. They are always calling down to be like us. "I don't think God is against us when we..." and we finish the rest. "Surely God doesn't mind when we worship..." and the reasoning continues. Yes, too many are trying to speak for God, think for God and bring God down to our level. It is a very destructive mind set.
Looking closely at the cross and you will see God is calling us to Himself in a sacrifice and not just any sacrifice. It took the death of His Son, His resurrection from the dead to prove God's acceptance of the sacrifice of His Son to show man God is calling us upward into Him, not downward! Too many are speaking for God where God does not speak. Just because God doesn't say something specifically about our worship doesn't mean we are free to call Him into our assemblies and tell Him what we want to offer Him and He accept it! Because we have been taken upward into God by the sacrifice of His Son, we have received something from the Lord God that calls us upward to Him to offer Him a service, a worship with reverence and awe (Heb. 12:28)! We are called to live a life that is holy because "He is holy." (I Pet. 1:15-16) God is calling us upward into Himself.
There are too many liberties that people are taking about God. There are too many liberties in our approach to God that are nothing more than our fleshliness. It's time we start coming to God on His terms and not bring God to our terms. Paul was right, "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 3:14)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe, just maybe, we are far to busy talking, especially about ourselves, that we fail to stop and listen to what God says and does not say through His Word.

What misplaced audacity do we possess to think that we can speak for God in any manner?