It is very easy to get caught up in the
busyness of life. It is easy to think I am doing all God wants from me by going
to church each Sunday. In reality, we are just trying to justify our in-action.
God does want us to come to worship but he wants our whole heart every day not
just an hour on Sunday and even that may not be whole heartedly. I started reading
the book of Isaiah and was drawn to these action words in the scripture below.
In all these action words, the song Stand By Me comes to mind. God wants us to
stand by each other and assist in making sure that everyone’s needs are being
met. This requires our thinking to change from self-related to other-related
and it is an on-going process to re-train ourselves to think of others before
thinking of ourselves. The likely place to start working on this is in your own
environment that you are in the most. For me that is my office and my home. I
am going to set a goal to focus on just one person from each of these
environments each day that I can stand by and help with whatever they may need,
whether it be words of encouragement, a listening ear and heart, a hug or
whatever. In doing this, the act of worshipping God is going beyond Sunday and
into my daily life. Join me in taking the action that God wants for us.
1Isaiah
1:17 Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of
the widow.
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