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Saturday, 18 December 2010 10:52 |
Who is on the throne of your heart?
"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love."
(Revelation 2:4)
In our society, people have created a so-called "gray area" as opposed to the "black & white", or clarity of truth, of some years ago.
We as Christians and holders of God's truth have something worth fighting for. We need to be "bothered" by how people today are - especially so-called "Christians". We need to check ourselves and see if there are areas that we still need to have Christ clean up.
Being raised in the church, you can easily get into a form or "routine". We can learn how to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk", but we need to be careful not to get so comfortable that we lose our awareness of the danger of just becoming "religious".
* Revelation 2:1-7
How many things here (in the above scripture) have we done? We can labor for God, have patience, work with souls, abhor evil ... all this and more and yet, are we just religious or do we have God's true spirit in us? The Bible says to "try the spirits". We can "live the life" and yet, there's something that's wrong. In the instance of a saint versus a religious person, there may be some things that are the same in their hearts i.e. both of them have God's word hidden in their hearts and both of them have a foundation of truth. The real difference is when it comes to finding out who is really reining 100% on the throne of their hearts. The true saint will let God have complete control of their heart and life. The person that is just religious, will have someone or something else on the throne of their heart that comes before God. Then there is no room for God. They might be "following" God's word and know the truth, but Christ is not on the throne of their heart. When someone else is on the throne of your heart, the legs of that throne will be unstable and eventually collapse.
Is Christ ruler on the throne of your heart? Whatever He asks, do you do? Are you following Him 100%? We need to be in the place where Christ reigns on the throne of our heart. If we don't let Christ fill us, there will be room for other things to come in and take over. We have to be settled in our experience and relationship with God - all or nothing!
When you become just religious, you will get "tired" of this way (God's way). When Christ is on the throne, you will retain that joy and happiness that only He can give. We have to give 100%. With God, there is only "Sin" and "Righteousness". Our society wants to make some things a gray area so that we can "get away" with some things. But it is not that way with God. We have to make our decision to be a sinner or a saint. With God, there is no middle ground. Who is on the throne of YOUR heart?
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