WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Bible Reference: Mathew 6:33 “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”.
Good morning,
We thank God for such a wonderful day and time like this given unto us by the will of God the Father through Jesus Christ our Savior. We thank Him for the gift of life and strength given to us and His continual and everlasting love shown unto sinners like us.
Today in our search for scriptures, we will be taking a look at one of the commonest bible verse well known to many Christians, but loosely understood by many. This statement made by Christ comes with a great principle of which many of us are victim of.
One of the greatest assurance and promise we will ever get to hear is this statement made by Christ who is God himself. Since God never fails nor lies, anytime we are able to fulfil this commandment God asks us one simple question which is WHAT DO YOU WANT?
This is where the problem come and this principle behind this statement has made many of us victims of a disease found in many Christians. The disease I am talking about is not one of the biological diseases that kills us physically but as Christians this disease is more dreadful than any of the biological diseases we can think of.
This dangerous religious disease is having it roots firmly grounded in our Christian walk, it is pushing us away from God, it is killing our relationship with the Holy Spirit, it is making us impatience, it has led us in manipulating Gods presence, it has also made us to manipulate the Holy Spirit. This disease affected the people of Israel when God took too long on the mountain, they worshipped cow.
You might wonder what this disease is, it is well known but perhaps you haven’t thought about it, but question WHAT DO YOU WANT should give you a hint about what this disease is.
One of the greatest symptom of this dreadful religious disease is when we manipulate the power of the Holy Spirit.Miracles should be one of the means of knowing God, but when you are infected by this disease, we use the Holy Spirit as a means to get a miracle just as the Israelite did.
When the Israelite asked God to get them out of Egypt, they didn’t want God but rather they wanted their freedom, and so to them God was the means of getting such freedom. On the other hand God, Moses who was not infected by this diseases used this moment as a means of knowing God.
The impatience symptoms associated with this disease is clearly seen in the what the people of Israel did when God took long on the mountain by worshiping cow, but Moses who was not infected waited on God.In our modern Christianity, God who should be our goal has now turned out as means to our goal.
DESPERATE is the name of this disease. Many of us are so desperate as a result of our problems, we have made our problems more important than God and this is exactly what Christ meant when He said lay up your treasures in heaven, because where your treasures are, there your heart is.
If we have intimacy with the Holy Spirit, it kills our desperation, it makes our problems less important, intimacy with the Holy Spirit makes us joyful even when all is not well, it makes us see that God is bigger than our problem, it makes us love and do what God wants us to do and anytime we do what God wants us to do, He asks us one question WHAT DO YOU WANT.
God bless you
Antwi Bosiakoh Isaac