Sunday, September 18, 2005

Are you creating your own god?

(Hebrews 10:7-10)
THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.' After saying above, "SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them" (which are offered according to the Law), then He said, "BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL." He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The last sentence is the key as it states that no other sacrifice is necessary for our sanctification. That’s what I’d like to talk about…

It is extremely easy for Christians to fall into the trap of offering our sacrifices instead of accepting the perfect one. Do you find yourself thinking that if you only pray more or “do good” or fast more or ______ that God would become to you what you want Him to be? That He would love you more? That He would favor you more?

That’s garbage in its pure form. God is already everything to us that we ever needed. He doesn’t change: He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He loves you unconditionally and His love does not change based on what you do (or don’t do). He cannot change because He cannot become any more or less perfect – He is the perfection itself.

If we find ourselves trying to "change" God, we must repent at once. God never, never needs anything from us as if He lacked something... It is we who need everything from Him. We are to open our mouths wide that He may fill us. We are strictly God's beneficiaries -- never benefactors.

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