Text: “The Lord looketh from Heaven; He beholdeth all
the sons of men…He considereth all their works.”
Psalm
33:13-15.
Good morning, God-conscious
Christian! Not for you and I the
lackadaisical attitude of many in this increasingly apostate and unfaithful 21st
Century ‘church’ of Jesus Christ.
No! We are not living our lives
as though the God of the Bible has somehow fallen asleep; has somehow began to wink
at sin; somehow strangely forgotten His wrath against vileness and gross
disobedience to His Commandments.
No! Praise God, you and I are very
conscious that the Lord God Almighty cannot fall asleep, nor can He forget His
own perfect Holiness and wrath against all that falls short of perfect
Christlikeness. He has spoken, and His
Word remains absolute truth.
Hallelujah! Our God never changes,
ever!
“God is not a man that He
should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent (change His mind):
hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or
hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
Behold (look and see clearly), I have received commandment to bless: and
He hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.”
(Numbers 23:19-20)
God detests all sin! God loves Holiness and obedience to His
Word! God will not suddenly fall asleep
or change His mind about mankind’s gross sin against Him. Fact.
“And I will come near to you
to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against
the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the
hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith the Lord of hosts. For I am the Lord (Jehovah), I change
not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are
gone away from Mine ordinances (Commandments), and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you,
saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said,
Wherein shall we return?” (Malachi
3:5-7)
God-conscious Christians are
genuine, obedient, faithful Christian people - sinners saved (Spiritually
regenerated) by God’s grace, manifested in Christ Jesus, the Son of God, and
trusting completely in His one-time perfect Sacrifice for our vile sins on the
Cross at Calvary, over two-thousand years ago.
Christianity, in practice, is
defined merely as being Spiritually regenerated to be like Christ, to the very
best of ones’ abilities, in the enabling power of God the Holy Spirit and
according to God’s written Word. Simple
as that! What is YOUR Christianity
like? What is MY Christianity like? Are we Bible-based Christians at all? Take heed!
Verse 13. “The Lord looketh from Heaven; He beholdeth
all the sons of men.” Think not that God
is mocked, fooled, or bluffed by mere outward appearance Christianity - the
Lord God looks, and continues to look and examine our hearts. Nothing short of the real deal Spiritually
regenerate Christian faith will stand the test.
“A man may have his name set
down in chronicles, yet be lost; wrought in durable marble, yet perish; set
upon a monument equal to a Colossus, yet be ignominious; inscribed on the
hospital gates, yet go to Hell; written in the front of his own house, yet
another come to possess it; all these are but writings in the dust, or upon the
waters, where the characters perish so soon as they are made; they no more
prove a man happy than the fool could prove Pontius Pilate happy because his
name was written in the Creed.
“But the true comfort is this,
when a man by assurance can conclude with his own soul that his name is written
in those Eternal leaves of Heaven, in the book of God’s Election, which shall
never be wrapped up in the cloudy sheets of darkness but remain legible to all
Eternity.” (Thomas Adams 1614)
God’s own Word is always more
concise on this vital matter: “But as He which hath called you is Holy, so be
ye holy in all manner of conversation (entire lifestyle); because it is
written, Be ye holy for I am Holy.” (1
Peter 1:15-16)
“Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which no man/woman shall see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14)
Will the great Creator of the
human brain fail to understand the thoughts, motives, and actions it
manifests? Never! The Creator Lord God knows ALL our most
secret motives and is in continual, unending surveillance of all whom He saves.
Verse 15. “He considereth all their works. Two men give to the poor, one
seeketh his reward in Heaven, the other the praise of men. Thou, in two, seest one thing; God
understandeth two. For He understandeth
what is within, and knoweth what is within; their ends He seeth, their base
intentions He seeth. ‘He understandeth
all their works.’” (Augustine 354-430
AD)
As the Lord looks upon your
heart and mine today, professing Christian believer, what does He see
there? Are our motives pure and
Christ-seeking, or are they tainted with the sin of selfishness and
self-promotion? Sobering thoughts on
this new day, what?
Thought: The Lord God never slumbers nor sleeps - He
is in full surveillance mode. What act
of obedience can you and I do to please Him today?
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