"Playing Games With God"

It is troubling to my heart what I see happening among God's people. It has been a flood this week in many lives. People who sit in a worship (or a couple of times) week after week, hearing God be taught, having access to a Bible, prayers offered and the fellowship of the Supper and what do we end up with? People trapped in their sins and that entrapment raises its head and sends those I am speaking about into a state of confusion and doubt as their lives slowly spiral downward. Where is their relationship with God? It is being exposed as they encounter difficulties with little to no answers. I call it playing games with the Lord!

The relationship to the Lord should be a faith building, life building relationship. We should be making gains and becoming more and more like Christ in His attitudes and heart. When we do little in our lives to pursue the things of the Lord expect make a showing because that's what Christian's do, lives deteriorate and somewhere down the road, it catches us. It reminds me of Moses speaking to Israel in Num. 32:23, "...and be sure your sin will find you out!" The principle of reaping and sowing come into play in each of our lives.

What would we do if we were confronted with torture for our faith in the Lord? Or our lives threatened? Put in chains and imprisonment? Shot? Loosing our homes and things and having to live in holes in the ground? That's what many of those brethren in the first century had to do. Just read Heb. 11 and you will see it. We have difficulty with little things and our ease of life makes many dull of hearing which makes us lazy toward the Lord Jesus. As one individual told me in the midst of his spiritual dilemma: "I know I haven't been doing right for years but I never saw this coming!" Exactly! Playing games with the Lord creates false security and a blindness in our sights until we are hurting and have no answers.

I encourage each of us, pursue God with all our heart. Let's not receive the grace of God in vain because today is the day of salvation. If we know we aren't walking rightly, repent. Let go of the things of the world that hold us back. Be diligent in our faith and sincere in our heart and let the Lord change us from the inside out. Too many are playing games with religion and God!