Tuesday, February 17, 2009

IF WE DO NOT TRUST GOD THEN WE DO NOT HONOR GOD

Posted by George Soepboer Sr

If we wish to live in fellowship with God then we must love God and trust God. Without love for God and without trust in God we cannot live in fellowship with God. We can know all about God, and we can claim to live for God but that does not mean that we honor God, for when we claim we live for God but do not truly trust God then we belittle God. Moreover, then we anger God, for only trust in God and love for God makes us a friend of God.
( James 2:23 ).

We can talk about God, and we can say all sorts of great things about God, but that also does not prove that we trust God. Our trust in God is not only what we say about God but also how we live with God, for we can teach and preach about God without living in fellowship with God and without honoring God. It is not the teaching and preaching we do about God that honors God, but if we love and trust God that honors God.
( Matthew 7:21-23 ).

Our life can be full of religion without trusting and loving God. We can also send up many prayers to God without trusting and loving God. We can also say we trust God without true faith in God.
( Isaiah 29:13 ).

Trust in God and love for God is the greatest honor we can bestow upon God, and then we receive honor from God.
( Jeremiah 17:5-8 ).

When we truly love God then we must be willing to pay the price to show our love for God, for then we must completely surrender our live to God.
( Matthew 13:44-46 ).

When we pray to God then we must trust God, for if we pray to God and do not trust God then our prayer abhorred by God.
( James 1:5-8 ).

When we do not understand the things that take place in our life we must trust God, for our ways and will are not always the way and will of God.
( Isaiah 55:8-9 ).

If we tell God that we trust God without placing our will in the will of God then we lie to God. We can only prove to God that we trust God by placing our will in the will of God.
( Matthew 26:36-46 ).

We must pray to God but we must not seek to overpower God with our prayers when we pray to God by demanding things from God. In addition, when we have prayed then we must become still before God by placing our will into the will of God.
( Psalms 46:10 ).

When our life is full of fear and worry then we do not live with God, for when we are occupied with fear and worries then not trust God.
( 1 Peter 5:7 ).

When we truly wish to honor God and truly wish to live for God and with God, then we must humbly surrender our will to God, and we must open our heart to God and love God, for that is the only way of life that is acceptable to God.
( 1 Corinthians chapter 13 ).

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