Sometimes this question is never asked out of fear of the response, but what I have learned in this school is that to know God we must ask questions. Asking is a good thing! So...Why God? Why serve Him? Why love Him? Why is it all about God? Who is God really...no really. who is God? I feel as beeing a christian most of my life, I have stopped "thinking" and have taken the back seat in my search for God. Why was i searching Him in the first place? Some people in the church i truly believe have forgotten over time why they are a "Christ follower." Don't stop asking -that feeling you have inside - the unsettling feeling of frustration and weariness from dissatisfaction is you're hunger for Christ screaming out. Being a christian IS NOT BORING. Why do you think mankind searches his whole life for pleasure and value? We are made that way. do you think God doesn't know that... How do we measure value? Job 28:12-22 by how original and or unique that thing is? job 28:23-28 But How do we choose when we don't understand the value? Can we say God is the most valuable without understanding His full worth?
One of the things that has been said to me over and over these two days is "Is God enough for you?" Can I truly say im reading the word loving others doing what is good because God is enough? or is His calling for my life what drives me to serve Him, the gift of ministry, the promise of Heaven? Is GOD all together enough? -this is when it hit me "Sin is what we do when God isn't enough." Lay down your right for illegitimate pleasures and find the eternal satisfactory pleasures in christ. That pleasure is found when u stop going through the motions and find enjoyment in His satisfaction. Think of this! Jesus came so that we might have Joy and fulness of Joy this very day. We are promised Joy! God doesn't want us to suppress our emotions -no live it out be alive 'cause God is alive! God rewards those who seek Him, seek the reward of being completely satisfied in Him. I love this saying "pleasure becomes the measure of the treasure" "think of this we say i have to follow Christ do the miserable, suffer and be obedient and don't count on there always being joy...No! if there wasn't the promise of Joy in Christianity i would go back to sin" So lets toss this idea that the most holy Christian is the most miserable. We are the most satisfied, pleasured, on fire, attractive people overflowing with Joy because God. is. enough.
Wow Mariah, this is awesome! Very well said! I'm inspired!
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