God wants our devotion in personal relationship

A few years ago I pastored Central Baptist Church in the city of Irving, Texas.  Our church was noted for its compassion and giving. We helped those who were down and out to pay rent, utilities, gas and buy food on a temporary basis allowing them to get back on their feet.

We were situated near a major highway and often times travelers would exit the highway and stop at the church seeking financial aid because someone had directed them to us.

Some of the largest churches in the city even sent people to us instead of offering them help from their own churches.

I noticed that most of those seeking help from us did not want to worship with us or be involved in any way with our church. They just wanted financial help from us and to continue on their way.

Once in a while some would come back during a worship service or revival meeting as soon as I saw their faces I knew they were present to get something from us they were not there to seek a closeness with God.

Many times at my home I would receive a telephone call from some who never showed for a service or a prayer meeting I knew when I heard the voice on the other end of the phone that I was going to be asked for some kind of help because the only time that I ever heard from them was when they wanted something from me or the church.

This is the attitude with a lot of people when they are put into a situation of needing help and can’t find it anywhere else they will call upon God.

They are not seeking Him because they want a relationship with Him they do not desire to give their lives in worship and service to Him they just want something from Him.

Just as we  members of the Lords church desired those whom we helped to join us in worship of the Lord God rather than showing up for the financial help and after receiving it disappear until the next time they were in trouble.

God wants our devotion in personal relationship we should give our lives in worship and praise to the Heavenly Father for who He is not just for what He can give us or do for us.

Jesus gave Himself into the hands of cruel and wicked men choosing to die on the cross in our place for our sins so that we through His giving of Himself could be saved from the consequences of our sins which are death. And live in relationship with God through Him. Jesus gave Himself to be crucified in the most horrendous way a man could die in order that the barrier of sin that separated us from God could be bridged by His own tortured body and spilled blood bringing us into a relationship of sons and daughters of God.

Romans 6:23

King James Version (KJV)

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You see it’s not about asking God for his help when we have nowhere else to go but rather it’s about seeking a loving close relationship with the Heavenly Father who loves us and has compassion towards us when we are in trouble and in need.

 It is in his power to give us what we need when we need it. The loving Father gives us all good things through His only begotten Son and our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Almighty God that withholds nothing good from His children.

 Matthew 6:33

King James Version (KJV)

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Psalm 121

King James Version (KJV)

121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

² My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

James 1:17

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sin.
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.”     (1 Peter 3:18)

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