They also serve who serve...(part 2)

Often times, it takes those who do not worship as we do to show me who it is I should be bowing down to. In the time of Jesus, many people believed that Jesus and God were exactly who they said they were. There were Greeks who believed when the Pharisees wouldn’t (John 12:16-23). It doesn’t just take someone in church 24 hours a day, or someone in the best of health who is praising God for that to manifest the meaning of the word “faith”. It takes heart. It is because of who I am in my relationship to God that an unbeliever becomes a believer. It is not really the physical actions that I have undertaken to be what God wants me to be, but my attitude in doing those acts (Phil 3:2-8). God’s purpose in sending His son was not to perfect rules and regulations that had been decreed by the Pharisees, but to perfect men’s hearts. And because he has come down to earth to free us from our sins, I am purged, and God has said while I may still sin, the blood of Christ covers me. I am forgiven. (Heb 10:2) He tells me over and over that it is not whether I keep the New Moon festivals, or whether I work on Sunday, or whether I know the significance of the tabernacle and lights. (Col 2:18-23) It is only important that I understand Him and what He has in mind for me. It is only important that I understand that God wants everyone to come to Him and that they will (Rev 3:9-13) and God will bring those that believe in Him into one unified body. (Rev 11:1-5; Rev. 15:2-8). In God and only in Him is the one true hope. (Rev 22:1-8).