"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
Revelation 3:19-20
Another good reminder that God doesn't chasten us out of anger or hatred, but because he truly wants to help us to be better. He isn't like our earthly associates that sometimes want or expect more than they should, or want us to be someone that is beyond our capacity, or someone who it is actually impossible to be. God takes our abilities into account, and just expects improvement and change. He wants us to come unto him and to stop walking away and following things that will only harm us.
If we let God into our lives by living in a way that allows us to hear his voice and have a relationship with him, then he will help us to become more than we are, and more than we thought we could be. He's never going to force us, but walking away from that relationship has its own inherent consequences, like any relationship I suppose. If we sever that connection, it isn't there when we want to fall back on it later.
Today, let's work on letting God into our lives, and on opening ourselves up to that relationship and that possibility, of not just self-improvement, but world-improvement. Let's answer the door and have dinner with out Savior.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
Revelation 3:19-20
Another good reminder that God doesn't chasten us out of anger or hatred, but because he truly wants to help us to be better. He isn't like our earthly associates that sometimes want or expect more than they should, or want us to be someone that is beyond our capacity, or someone who it is actually impossible to be. God takes our abilities into account, and just expects improvement and change. He wants us to come unto him and to stop walking away and following things that will only harm us.
If we let God into our lives by living in a way that allows us to hear his voice and have a relationship with him, then he will help us to become more than we are, and more than we thought we could be. He's never going to force us, but walking away from that relationship has its own inherent consequences, like any relationship I suppose. If we sever that connection, it isn't there when we want to fall back on it later.
Today, let's work on letting God into our lives, and on opening ourselves up to that relationship and that possibility, of not just self-improvement, but world-improvement. Let's answer the door and have dinner with out Savior.
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