Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. Listen to the hasty and shallow prayers we offer up to the God of the universe. We religious professionals develop little mindless speeches which we thoughtlessly send heavenward. Observe the miserly way we serve God, with our stingy offerings and grudging acts. What kind of deity would welcome such? We dishonor and belittle Him by the way we corrupt His commands to make them fit our tiny lives.
Unfortunately, there's nothing new about the practice. Throughout Scripture, we see people attempting to shrink-wrap God. God was honored by the pittance the poor widow woman brought to the Temple Mark Some offerings honor Him, and others insult Him. Worshipers would do well to find what makes an offering work and what would cause God to reject it.
Yes, that's how it happens. God did not speak up when we acted foolishly, and we concluded our sins were acceptable to Him. We are our own worst enemies sometimes. Then, the Lord said, "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces,and there be none to deliver: Whoever sacrifices a thank offering glorifies Me and makes a way; I will show him the salvation of God" Ps.
Why do we want to diminish God and make Him smaller than He is? The answers are as numerous as the people who do this:.
He had read J. Phillips' book from decades earlier, Your God is Too Small. Both are wonderful, and we recommend them. If He is small, we can manipulate Him and hide our sins from Him see Is.
How are we any superior to the idolater? With half of it, he makes firewood to burn in his oven and feed himself. With half he makes an idol. He falls down before it and worships and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god.
Some of us can recall church members turning God into a clone of themselves, with their racial prejudices, their hatred of certain groups and their pharisaical i. In fact, they fill a very large book—the Bible—don't they?
Jesus taught His people to begin their prayers with a statement on the greatness of God: Let there be some majesty and mystery in the life of every believer. Let us leave room for God to know more than we smile, please , to have plans He has not informed us about, to have power we have not even imagined yet let alone seen displayed and to be God. So, even while we "come with confidence to the throne of grace" Heb. That passage continues to say, "Do not be quick to speak with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God.
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