I Am The Lord Your God

Tied in with what I ask of God and how much do I believe Him is the next question: How seriously do I take the communal time together with my brethren and with God? Do I say, “God won’t mind if I skip this service”? I don’t care how many posters I make so that others can see what our latest mission trip was like, how much money I send to help fund the Christian growth of unwed mothers, how many meals I serve the homeless. God wants time with me. He has said it in Leviticus 19:30: Ye shall keep my Sabbath and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD. He has said it through David in Psalm 77:13: Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? And Psalm 84:4: Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house: they will be still praising thee. He had reaffirmed His desire to be with us through Isaiah, in Isaiah 56:7: Even them will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people. He wants me to give myself to Him, as in Romans 12:1 where I am called to make myself a living sacrifice, and not to forsake the body of Christ, (Heb 10:25) whether in church or in getting together for a meal or whatever reason. My purpose for doing this, is to fulfill what Jesus said, where two or more are gathered in my name there I am. And if Jesus is there, so is God. God longs for that relationship, daily, constantly, every second. And the test of my loyalty is whether or not I have that same longing to be with Him. That takes honesty and courage to say yes or no, because it means getting to the grass roots of who I am and how much my relationships really mean to me. But if I don’t be honest with God, then the time I spend with Him is just religion, and not true relationship, just going through the motions.