Tuesday September 16, 2003

~ Denial ~

The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
is made up only of rules taught by men.
Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;
the wisdom of the wise will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.
Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide their plans from the LORD,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us? Who will know?”
You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,
“He did not make me”?
Can the pot say of the potter,
“He knows nothing”?

— Isaiah 29:13-16 (NIV) —

How many times will it take before my heart, my wretched, wayward heart will learn to acknowledge God? Do I understand what it means to take up my cross and follow? Is my personal worship nothing more than a path set before me by men… or is it the crying out of my heart, mind and soul to My Lord, God? When faced with the power of God, who can speak of wisdom or intelligence?

When I look over my life, I see times where I’ve lived as if God wasn’t looking. As if there was some place where I could hide and He wouldn’t find me. But the feelings lie, God knows everything I’ve done and His Love is still there. I find my world looks upside down, but that’s because I’m looking at it the wrong way. God’s way is right-side up. Anyone who says God is wrong is shown to be foolish. A creation of God, telling his creator that it is not so…Denial defined.

Applications

= Seek the Lord with your heart, not just your actions!
= Acknowledge God is greater than any human intelligence or wisdom
= Live your life so that it is pleasing in God’s eyes
= Acknowledge your Creator.

God is good…. ^_^