February 25th, reading from the Chronological Bible, Leviticus 26:1 – 27:34
Leviticus 26:1, the Lord declares, “Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God. (V. 3) If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, (V. 4) I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. If I am not mistaken, I believe the Lord is instruction His people, to have no other god’s before Him, and in return for their diligence, it appears there is a harvest to be reaped.
It is no secret that Higher Praise in the middle of a building season. Our goal is to prepare a threshing floor for the harvest that all men may come unto the Lord. We are not after the approval of man, or the attention of man, we want the attention of heaven! We would not be in this building season if there was not a harvest of souls that desperately needs to be reached.
In the scripture above, I believe the message is simple, God wants to be the first and foremost priority of our lives, and if He is, we will reap the harvest! If you will do this, He will do that. I do not believe that any of you have gone out into the yard and built idols of worship. I have learned however in the pursuit of God, if we are not careful we tend to build idols that may disconnect us from the Lord. And while it is happening, we don’t even realize it. What can it be? The real question is; what can it not be? Busyness of everyday life, work, personal goals, money, stress, worry, insecurities, relationships, pleasures of life, or even any form of habitual sin that tries to ensnare us. While some of those things are responsibilities and goals are great to have, nothing should take the place of relationship with the Father. If we are not aware of the issues of life that are trying to steal our attention from Him, how can we impact the harvest? If we are not first impacted and changed by Him, how can we effectively impact the lives of others?
I can’t shake the word from the Lord Pastor Aaron shared weeks ago, I can’t remember it in entirety, but I do remember hearing these words, “What used to be ok, will no longer be ok.” Higher Praise, the Lord wants to take us all into new, and even higher levels in Him. We have to be willing to pay the price; we have to go lower before we can go higher. I’m challenging you today, stop and evaluate your life, take a glance at your heart and be sure there is nothing that is getting in the way. After all, He is the Lord your God. Make first things first, He will reward the diligent!
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