So how can we live a life of worship no matter what? We can start by offering genuine heartfelt sacrifices to our one true God. We can listen to His voice by making ourselves even more available to His call, by trusting in His promises and by following His guidance. We can humbly walk in His blessing knowing that He will bless us with His deliverance, His guidance, His grace and His presence. We need to live a life of worship.
To demonstrate the love of Christ, we can suspend our judgment of others. We can put away our contentious spirit as we quit living behind our façade. We can rest in God’s sovereignty as we offer our lives in exchange for others. Ultimately, we can truly receive others through extending to them heart-felt forgiveness.
We are all longing for Jesus to draw near to us so that we can be comforted and encouraged. We are all in desperate need of a redeemer who will overcome sin and death. And now by the Glory of Christ, He is the One who paid the debt we couldn’t pay. He is the One who completely fulfilled all that was promised. He is the only One who can open our eyes. He is the One who is risen indeed.
The King of Kings requires obedience as we go where He sends us, as we listen to what He tells us, and as we do what He commands us to do. The King of Kings is worthy of Praise as we humbly make a way for Him, as we praise Him for all that He has done, as we praise Him for who He is, and as we praise Him even when others turn away. The King of Kings is full of Compassion. He has demonstrated His love, He has granted us peace, He has revealed His truth, He has set us free, and He has given us life. As Christ followers God has blessed us with His very presence in our lives. But even with His presence we still need to do all we can to guard against moral failure and sin. We need to flee from sin as we refuse to participate in rebellion against our God. We need to remember our responsibilities and who we ultimately belong to. We need to shut out and avoid would-be tempters as we run for our lives from sin. We will know we are moving in the right direction away from sin when we find ourselves enduring persecution for doing what’s right.
As Christ followers God has blessed us with His very presence in our lives. But even with His presence we still need to do all we can to guard against moral failure and sin. We need to flee from sin as we refuse to participate in rebellion against our God. We need to remember our responsibilities and who we ultimately belong to. We need to shut out and avoid would-be tempters as we run for our lives from sin. We will know we are moving in the right direction away from sin when we find ourselves enduring persecution for doing what’s right.
It is clear from Scripture that we need to center our lives on Christ while trusting God for our provision. Since there’s really no way to hide sin, we need to count the cost of our rebellion before we fail, recognizing that sin has the power to blind us from reality. Ultimately, we need to know that God will always have His way in the end.
In a world where jealousy and hatred reign and where love has been lost, we need to realize that God is yet worthy of our trust. We have no right to callously humiliate and abuse our brother. We have no right to sell our brother down the river. We have no right to manipulate the truth about our brother. We are our brother’s keeper. ​
In a world where love has been lost and where hatred and jealousy reign, we need to work diligently to protect our brothers and sisters. It turns out that we are our brother’s keeper. We need to love others while trusting in God’s sovereign plan as He guides us. Like Jesus, we need to protect others by doing all we can to be life savers.