How Far Do You Have to Go?

You know we live our lives, day to day. We don't take the time we need to speak to God, to allow God to speak to us. We make compromises day in and day out on our lives, love, children's education, and so much more, we compromise our stand with God to others, to ourselves, to our children, on a daily basis, then we wonder why we can't hear his voice. We wonder why when we reach out to him we feel as if he is not even there. Why do we do that to ourselves?

God says, "Be Still, and know that I am God!" He also says, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you." Then we are so busy, so hurried in our lives that we don't have time nor the inkling to Be Still. We don't want to take the time to listen to what he has to say. Then when everything falls apart, when you are facing the trials and tribulations that seem to be the heaviest things to bare, we blame God. We say, "he is so far away, I don't think he can hear my prayer, he is just to far for me to reach, why did he leave me here all alone."

You know, in Proverbs 3:5 It says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on your own understandings, In all thy ways Acknowledge HIM and he shall direct your paths." If we took the time to acknowledge him, took time to just TRUST that he has made these promises to us, that he isn't walking away from us, but that we are too busy for him. We are the ones that quit "Seeking FIRST the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness." (Matthew 6:33a) and we wonder why the promise of... "All these things will be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33b) isn't happening in our lives.

How far do you have to go to see God? How far do you have to go to lean on him? How far do you have to go to allow this God and Savior in your life so he can give you the abundance and joy that he wants to give you?

How far did he go for you? Would you believe that he went ALL THE WAY TO THE CROSS for you? He took on the torment of beatings with the worst tool ever made to receive the 39 stripes on his back for you, He took being despised and shamed, being totally disrobed hanging on the cross naked, spat upon, beaten, with a crown of thorns on his head, FOR YOU. He took SPIKES, not picture nails, BUT SPIKES, in both his hands and his feet FOR YOU. He had spear thrust through his side, FOR YOU. He took on the weight of the world, he took on YOUR SINS even though you wasn't there, you were there in HIS MIND, IN HIS HEART. HE SAW YOU. He took on your sins, my sins, the entire worlds sins, so that we could have this ONE ON ONE relationship with HIM. So we could live eternally WITH HIM in HEAVEN.

How far is too far? How far are you willing to go for him now?