Fine Print series @ NCC
The past few weeks Pastor Mark has been preaching on “Fine Print” in the Bible. What fine print? Well, the more like the passages of scripture that we either skim over or don’t like to read because they make us uncomfortable. The past few weeks have talked alot about dying to what you want or what you may think you need in order to give God control of your life. We tend to gravitate to what we feel like is familiar and comfortable. This can cause complacency in both your physical life as well as your spiritual life. It’s almost like we have drawn a circle around ourselves and we stay within that circle. Stepping out of that circle makes things difficult and scary because we simply don’t know what could happen. However, in that area of uncertainty and unfamiliarity is where the greatest discoveries and victories of living life are.
When you take that step of faith and make the decision to move forward in faith, that in and of itself is a victory. But the challenge is that when God does move mightily, it scares you and you move back into that place of familiarity.
Sometimes, we need to take that risk and die to ourselves.
God is relentlessly pursuing us…he wants all of us. His jealousy is as demanding as the grave. Yet, many times, when we chose to be complacent and not live our lives to the fullest, we let death and the grave control us. We are sinful by nature which makes it easy to just sit back and stay silent. By remaining silent, Satan wins
. We plead and pray for God to take control of our lives and fill our hearts but He won’t do it until we decide to move forward. Talk is cheap and decision is nothing without action.
All this creates tension. The Bible says that Jesus is a friend that sticks closer then a brother. Yet, He is still Almighty God and no one can stand in his presence.
This is huge.
I think many times we simply don’t take our PERSONAL relationship with God seriously enough. I think so many times we worship God as far off in outer space and somewhat disconnected whether we are willing to admit it or not. I heard a phrase from a Jesus Culture song this weekend that says: “I don’t want to talk about You like You’re not in the room
. I want to look right at You. I want to sing right to You.”
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