Faithfulness is devotion, steadfastness, dependable, stable and constant. God is utterly faithful- He cannot not be faithful!
I want to be faithful to Jesus as much as He is faithful to me, but I am realizing how difficult faithfulness can be! Jesus is the lover of my soul yet I find that at times I look to the right and I look to the left as I seek to walk forward with Jesus. I'm distracted. I stumble. I mess up.
But it's not who I am. I am God's Beloved- I belong to Jesus. He has my heart. We're humans. We mess up A LOT and we need to remember that it's okay! Definitely don't choose to sin because you know God will always receive you with open arms, but should you stumble- allow the Lord to pick you up, brush you off and help you walk again.
I want to be FULLY devoted and faithful to Jesus- to the point that I would do nothing to grieve His Spirit. God will always love me and He will always love you, but we may we seek to honor, bless and love His heart as opposed to hurt His heart as we turn away from Him and pursue false lovers.
God put the book of Hosea on my heart, and I'm not going to go into detail about the book, but I want to make a point. Hosea was a prophet whom God asked to marry a woman of "whoredom". On a daily basis she ran after and was intimate with false lovers, and yet God asked him to keep choosing his wife- even if she was unfaithful and did not love him with the same love he had for her. What really gets me with this is that God loves us NO MATTER WHAT and He takes care of us fully, and yet we run after things that do not satisfy, things that break us and leave us. God's heart is grieved, yet when we glance at Him and raise our arms up to Him, He comes and He holds us. He cleanses us, restores us, adorns us with His beauty. But in a moment, we too easily forget this all and pursue false lovers again.
What lack is there in our heart that leaves us unsatisfied to the degree that we pursue someone or something that is not God himself or of Him? Why is it so hard to commit fully to God when He only can satisfy and fulfill our every desire and all that we are?
I feel challenged to pray this prayer on a daily basis:
"Jesus, fill me up to overflow with Your love, presence and Spirit so that there is nothing in the world that I would desire and nothing of the world that could even capture my attention. I want to be captivated by You and You alone."
For Jesus is more than enough and He is truly deserving of all of us and of our full attention! He is worthy of us gazing at Him unhindered, paying no attention to anything and everything that takes our eyes off of Him.
I desire to burn for Jesus, to be fully consumed by Him and in a sense completely obsessed with Him. So that He is always on my mind and the first one I look to and come to. So what do you say? Shall we seek God first and foremost? Shall we pursue Him and see our lives align with His? Shall we experience the depth of His love to the point that we are completely motivated by the desire to honor Him and love Him?
May we love God so much that we fear Him and are fully compelled by His love. May we love Jesus so much that we give Him the love, respect and adoration that He deserves. May we love Holy Spirit so much that we would not give a second thought or a first step to anything that could grieve Him.
We need to run after God's heart. This world is so deceptive and it seeks to taint our view of God, but the reality is that Jesus is the most beautiful and He gave everything for us! We have to reach a point where we give Him ALL OF US- we have to! There truly is no other way- no other way being that nothing else will ever satisfy us like God. So why turn away? Why not press into Him and pursue Him back as He pursues us. Experience the depth of the love of Christ and I promise you, you will never be the same- forever changed and transformed for the better.
And the moments where we fail. remember that Jesus will always take you back because His love for you is that great, that deep, that real. He will literally always love us, no matter what. So let us give all of our love to Jesus, let us surrender and submit to Him, let us receive His love fully, let us be faithful to Him above all others.
Love you all. Next post is coming out at the end of this week. xx
I want to be faithful to Jesus as much as He is faithful to me, but I am realizing how difficult faithfulness can be! Jesus is the lover of my soul yet I find that at times I look to the right and I look to the left as I seek to walk forward with Jesus. I'm distracted. I stumble. I mess up.
But it's not who I am. I am God's Beloved- I belong to Jesus. He has my heart. We're humans. We mess up A LOT and we need to remember that it's okay! Definitely don't choose to sin because you know God will always receive you with open arms, but should you stumble- allow the Lord to pick you up, brush you off and help you walk again.
I want to be FULLY devoted and faithful to Jesus- to the point that I would do nothing to grieve His Spirit. God will always love me and He will always love you, but we may we seek to honor, bless and love His heart as opposed to hurt His heart as we turn away from Him and pursue false lovers.
God put the book of Hosea on my heart, and I'm not going to go into detail about the book, but I want to make a point. Hosea was a prophet whom God asked to marry a woman of "whoredom". On a daily basis she ran after and was intimate with false lovers, and yet God asked him to keep choosing his wife- even if she was unfaithful and did not love him with the same love he had for her. What really gets me with this is that God loves us NO MATTER WHAT and He takes care of us fully, and yet we run after things that do not satisfy, things that break us and leave us. God's heart is grieved, yet when we glance at Him and raise our arms up to Him, He comes and He holds us. He cleanses us, restores us, adorns us with His beauty. But in a moment, we too easily forget this all and pursue false lovers again.
What lack is there in our heart that leaves us unsatisfied to the degree that we pursue someone or something that is not God himself or of Him? Why is it so hard to commit fully to God when He only can satisfy and fulfill our every desire and all that we are?
I feel challenged to pray this prayer on a daily basis:
"Jesus, fill me up to overflow with Your love, presence and Spirit so that there is nothing in the world that I would desire and nothing of the world that could even capture my attention. I want to be captivated by You and You alone."
For Jesus is more than enough and He is truly deserving of all of us and of our full attention! He is worthy of us gazing at Him unhindered, paying no attention to anything and everything that takes our eyes off of Him.
I desire to burn for Jesus, to be fully consumed by Him and in a sense completely obsessed with Him. So that He is always on my mind and the first one I look to and come to. So what do you say? Shall we seek God first and foremost? Shall we pursue Him and see our lives align with His? Shall we experience the depth of His love to the point that we are completely motivated by the desire to honor Him and love Him?
May we love God so much that we fear Him and are fully compelled by His love. May we love Jesus so much that we give Him the love, respect and adoration that He deserves. May we love Holy Spirit so much that we would not give a second thought or a first step to anything that could grieve Him.
We need to run after God's heart. This world is so deceptive and it seeks to taint our view of God, but the reality is that Jesus is the most beautiful and He gave everything for us! We have to reach a point where we give Him ALL OF US- we have to! There truly is no other way- no other way being that nothing else will ever satisfy us like God. So why turn away? Why not press into Him and pursue Him back as He pursues us. Experience the depth of the love of Christ and I promise you, you will never be the same- forever changed and transformed for the better.
And the moments where we fail. remember that Jesus will always take you back because His love for you is that great, that deep, that real. He will literally always love us, no matter what. So let us give all of our love to Jesus, let us surrender and submit to Him, let us receive His love fully, let us be faithful to Him above all others.
Love you all. Next post is coming out at the end of this week. xx