Living a Christian life (Part 2)
Wow... It was a great time at Pudu today. I was just having a great time spending it with the people in "KAWAN" a place where we just went to hang out with the people there and see what God's doing in K.L. I caught a glimps of God's heart for the poor and needy. I just felt God was there with them as we enthrone and proclaim Christ as King in that place.
Before I went there I was meditating on Isaiah 58. I love this chapter in Isaiah. It talks about true fasting and what kind of fast that the Lord wants, - to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke. To share your food with the hungry and provide the poor wanderer with shelther. Clothe the naked, do away with the pointing finger and malicious talk, spending ourselves in behalf of the hungry, satisfy the needs of the oppressed. And note how much promises if we do that:
1. Then your light will break forth like the dawn
2. and your healing will quickly appear
3. then your righteousness will go before you
4. and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard
5. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer
6. You will cry for help and He will say: Here am I
7. Then your light will rise in the darkness
8. your night will become like the noonday
9. The Lord will guide you always
10. He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
11. and will strengthen your frame
12. You will be like a well-watered garden like a spring whose waters never fail
Twelve... Perfect number. ;P
That's a lot of promises that God is offering to those who 'do that kind' of fasting. Basically to do what He said earlier.
And another thing I caught from this passage is at v13 onwards:
v13 If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken.
That passage was just a slap on my head. All this while I thought I am honoring God so much by going for Sunday service and hang out for lunch and that's enough. No doubt I am honoring God by going to gather together and worship Him on a Sunday morning, but there's just more than that to it. From DOING AS I PLEASE reiterated TWICE in that passage. Honoring it by not going your own way! Doing as you please! OR speak idle words!! I don't think I wana speak idle words on a Sabbath, if I really honor it, that is!! Notice the bible use the word "keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath". So much to do with where we go on a Sabbath, what we choose to do, what we choose to give our hearts to.
I'm more and more convicted that I can't continue living life for myself. I really want to start to learn to honor God by not going my way, but to ask and choose His way and where He leads I want to go. I want to honor God's holy day, and more to that, I want to honor God. And that means, following Him and his precepts and teachings. And that means, I'm not going to get quite comfortable with what's gonna happen these Sunday's ahead of me and more than that, every single day ahead of me. More of you Lord Jesus and less of me. Unless I die to myself and know that I no longer live but Christ who lives in me, I will probably just continue living a wasted life. Coz life without Jesus = wasted...
Before I went there I was meditating on Isaiah 58. I love this chapter in Isaiah. It talks about true fasting and what kind of fast that the Lord wants, - to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke. To share your food with the hungry and provide the poor wanderer with shelther. Clothe the naked, do away with the pointing finger and malicious talk, spending ourselves in behalf of the hungry, satisfy the needs of the oppressed. And note how much promises if we do that:
1. Then your light will break forth like the dawn
2. and your healing will quickly appear
3. then your righteousness will go before you
4. and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard
5. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer
6. You will cry for help and He will say: Here am I
7. Then your light will rise in the darkness
8. your night will become like the noonday
9. The Lord will guide you always
10. He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
11. and will strengthen your frame
12. You will be like a well-watered garden like a spring whose waters never fail
Twelve... Perfect number. ;P
That's a lot of promises that God is offering to those who 'do that kind' of fasting. Basically to do what He said earlier.
And another thing I caught from this passage is at v13 onwards:
v13 If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken.
That passage was just a slap on my head. All this while I thought I am honoring God so much by going for Sunday service and hang out for lunch and that's enough. No doubt I am honoring God by going to gather together and worship Him on a Sunday morning, but there's just more than that to it. From DOING AS I PLEASE reiterated TWICE in that passage. Honoring it by not going your own way! Doing as you please! OR speak idle words!! I don't think I wana speak idle words on a Sabbath, if I really honor it, that is!! Notice the bible use the word "keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath". So much to do with where we go on a Sabbath, what we choose to do, what we choose to give our hearts to.
I'm more and more convicted that I can't continue living life for myself. I really want to start to learn to honor God by not going my way, but to ask and choose His way and where He leads I want to go. I want to honor God's holy day, and more to that, I want to honor God. And that means, following Him and his precepts and teachings. And that means, I'm not going to get quite comfortable with what's gonna happen these Sunday's ahead of me and more than that, every single day ahead of me. More of you Lord Jesus and less of me. Unless I die to myself and know that I no longer live but Christ who lives in me, I will probably just continue living a wasted life. Coz life without Jesus = wasted...
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