Created To Worship
Why am I here? Why was I created? It’s one of life’s most pondering questions about our ultimate purpose. And thankfully, God is 💯 about it. We will always worship someone or something because we were created and designed for it.
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When God Asks: Where Are You?
When God asks us a question, it’s not because He doesn’t know the answer. His question to us serves as a locator for our hearts.
In That Order
It’s true that how we approach a thing, the order and manner, can reveal our true motive of the heart. When it comes to God, our manner will usually reveal what or who we’re really after. The psalmist David didn’t just ask God to help Him, He asked for a teachable to receive.
Make My Steps
We never have to do life alone when God is in the picture. He wants to direct our steps and will — if we’re willing to let Him have His way. The psalmist David understood the power of our human weakness, sin, while also recognizing God’s hand and plan over it.
The Posture of Your Heart: Inclining To God
David understood that he could only be as close to God as much as he inclined his heart to Him. And he inclined his heart to God by keeping the ways of God — desiring what God desired. We are not saved by works but God does instruct us how to live. And we must work in our salvation.
Loving His Ways
One of the greatest gifts that we could ever ask for and receive is to have a teachable heart. When we’re teachable, everything becomes accessible. When we surrender our hearts to God and submit ourselves in obedience, He does the transformation of changing our ways and creating us anew.
Pain Has A Purpose
Pain serves a greater purpose beyond just reminding us of what we did wrong — it directs us to where we should be. Suffering in God’s eyes is about what the pain is being used to position us for, leading us to, more than it is about what we’re going through in the moment; because God always operates