Don’t Negotiate...Set Your Standard

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Revelation 2:4

Church not on your priority list? Want to hike instead? Need to sleep in?  May say you don’t need to be in church to be a Christian? You can worship on your own but then do you? There is a game on TV at same time. Whatever the excuse many people don’t get excited about the Sabbath Day and keeping it Holy. Hope you are not one of them.

Embrace God and a higher standard or suffer the consequences. How can you know and grow in the Lord by saying any of the things above? Perhaps it is a heart issue?Excuses don’t get you closer to God and they don’t help you run hard after God. They do make Satan extremely delighted because he likes it when you don’t want to make an effort to have Christian fellowship cause then he and his minions can suck you further away from God and into the worlds idea of truth and make you believe lies.

Your strength comes from your Christian standards. How do you expect to grow as a believer if you have no desire for fellowship with other believers? Stop today and ask yourself what the problem is. Maybe it is time to find a new church home that preaches truth and is dynamic and growing. Keep in mind you are here on Earth for His purposes and it is essential that you stay grounded with fellow believers. What do you need to do to make some changes to get this to happen?

PRAYER: Oh Lord sometimes I give heed more to newspapers and books than in studying your truth in the Bible. Help me make you a priority and I lift up any friends and family who are not desiring Christian fellowship that they would run back to you and you keep pursuing them. In Jesus’ name. Amen.