2/10/2017 0 Comments In VS. THEToday on my Instagram page (@queenofmykastle) I shared this post and I felt that I should come to the blog and elaborate a little further on what I'm saying, although I feel it's pretty plain!
Please do not get into the habit or the ideology of equating time in Church as time being The Church. One does not necessarily equal the other. I know this firsthand because it was me. I grew up in the church, so my Sunday's have always consisted of church! However, I was not always The Church. Yes, I would attend service, sing in the choir, do the welcome, pay my tithes, and amen the preacher but my soul wasn't connected. I had learned how to be religious. Now I don't blame anybody but myself for this and I believe that it is a natural transition for those of us that grow up in the church. I believe we can be there so often that it becomes monotonous and thereby we begin to just go through the motions. So I believe there comes a time of maturity where we are presented in our walk the option to go deeper in Him or just to stay at the surface level. Sadly most of us will chose to live the idea of Jesus and church but lack the reality of what it really means to follow Jesus and be "The Church". This is not everybody. This is just me I'm talking about! You have to be intentional about being The Church! When you are The Church, that doesn't just take place on Sundays. When you are The Church, everywhere you go, everything you do is connected to and about Him! It means consistently, religiously, diligently seeking Holy Spirit in all matters! It means being concerned with more of His will than your own AND submitting to it. I have witnessed many, many people sitting up in the church, every day for every event but falling every day by every event further away from Him! I have witnessed the very ones that deliver the messages of warning fall victim to the very thing they warned about. It can happen to any of us at any time if we are not careful. We have to be diligent about not just time at church but time with the head of the church. And for those who don't know, the head of the church, the ultimate head is God! If you spend more time in service than you do with Him, you are out of order! If you spend more time serving the body than serving God, you are out of order! We serve Christ first before everything else, before spouses, children, careers, and personal aspirations. We must yield ourselves wholly to Him! Make sure you hear me clearly before you jump off here and be ready to tarnish my name. Church is NOT bad, serving is NOT bad, but yielding your life to those things more than you do to GOD ..... is really BAD! We know that anything we worship outside of God is an idol and yes, some worship the church. Make sure your house is in order! Prioritize your life accordingly and place your Lord and Savior at the top of the list! Everything will fall in place better once you do so..... believe me, I know! But you don't have to take my word for it You can try it for yourself Exodus 20:3 Proverbs 3:6 NIV Selah #becomingHis1stLady
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