One of the most admirable truths I discovered was this: God is the most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him.
This is the motto that guides my ministry as a pastor, it affects everything I do.
- If I eat.
- Drink.
- Preach.
- Advise.
- Or do in all this.
- My goal is to glorify God by the way I do it (1:10:31).
- This means that my goal is to do everything in a way that reveals how God’s glory has satisfied the desires of my heart.
- If my preaching were to denounce that God did not meet my needs.
- It would be fraudulent.
- If Christ were not the satisfaction of my heart.
- Would people believe when I proclaimed his message: “I am the bread of life; What comes to me will never be hungry; and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty?(Jo 6.
- 35).
The glory of bread is that it satisfies. The glory of living water is that it quenches his thirst. We do not honor the refreshing, renewable and pure water that comes down from the source of the mountain, when we make our contribution by bringing buckets of water from the wells of the valley. We honor the fountain by being thirsty, kneeling and drinking cheerfully. So we say, “Ahhhh!? (it’s worship!) and we continue our journey with the strength of the source (that is the service). of the mountain is the most glorified when we are most satisfied with its water.
Tragically, many of us have learned that duty, not pleasure, is the way to glorify God. We have not learned that rejoicing in God is our duty!Satisfying ourselves in God is not an optional addition to true Christian duty. basic condition of all. ? Do you love the Lord?(Salt 37,4). This is not a suggestion, it is an order, as they are: “Serve the Lord with joy?”(Ps 100,2) and :?Do you always rejoice in the Lord? (Fp 4. 4).
Is a pastor’s responsibility to make it clear to others that God’s love is better than life?(Salt 63,3). If God’s love is better than life, it is also better than all that life offers in this world. Does this mean that satisfaction is not in gifts, but in the glory of God?The glory of love, power, wisdom, holiness, the righteousness of God. , kindness and truth.
That’s why the Psalmist exclaimed, “Who else do I have in heaven?There is no one else with whom I am happy on earth. Even if my flesh and heart fail, is God the strength of my heart and my inheritance forever?(Psalm 73. 25-26). Nothing on earth, none of God’s gifts, in creation?I could satisfy Asaf’s heart, Only God could do it. David wanted to express this when he said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; Don’t I have any other good but you alone?(Salt 16,2).
David and Asaf teach us, through their God-centered desire, that God’s gifts?like health, wealth and prosperity?doesn’t it satisfy. Only satisfied God. Would it be presumptuous not to thank God for his gifts (?Don’t forget one of his blessings? Come out 103,2), but it would be an idyllic attitude to call God’s love the joy we obtain from such gifts. . When David said to the Lord, “Is there in your presence a fulness of joy, delights in your right hand forever?”(Ps 16:11), he affirmed that being close to God is the only experience that is totally satisfactory in the universe.
It was not because of God’s gifts that David aspired to a deeply passionate lover. As the deer sighs through the streams of the waters, so, for you, O God, sigh my soul. Does my soul yearn for God, the living God? (Salt 42,1-2). David wanted to experience a revelation of God’s glory and power: “O God, you are my strong God; I’m waiting for you. My soul thirsts for you; my body yearns for you, like arid, depleted land, without water. Is that why I look at you at the sanctuary, to see your strength and your glory?(Salt 63,1-2). Only God will satisfy a heart like David’s, who was a man according to the heart of God We were created to be so.
Is this the essence of what it means to love God?Loving God may include obeying all his commandments, this may include believing in all of His Word and thanking Him for all his gifts, but the essence of loving God is to enjoy all that He is. This enjoyment of God more fully glorifies his dignity, especially when everything around our soul collapses.
We all know this by intent as well as by the scriptures. Are we more honored by the love of those who serve us by obligation or by the pleasure of brotherhood?My wife is more honorable when I say, “Spending time with you makes me happy. My happiness is an echo of your excellence. The same goes for God, who is most glorified when we are most satisfied with him.
None of us have achieved complete satisfaction in God. I am often saddened by my whispering heart by the loss of the comfort of the world, but I have proved that the Lord is good. By the grace of God, I now know the source of eternal joy; that’s why I like to spend my days attracting people to this joy, until they can say with me:?the Lord’s beauty and meditate in his temple?(Salt 27,4).
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