Have
you had your Joy Juice today? God will not make you drink it! It’s your choice.
Though
our loving heavenly Father is all-powerful and could MAKE us do whatever He
would like, He does not work that way. We are not puppets or robots who can’t
think for ourselves. He gives us
choices. He wants us to choose to love
and obey Him.
In the
book of Exodus we read about the Israelites who had been held captive for years
and years in Egypt. When God set them free, He instructed Moses to build a
tabernacle so that they could worship Him there. God gave specific instructions
about who was to build the temple and how it was to be built. He wanted only those with sincere hearts
toward Him to be a part of this project.
God
still wants sincere hearts today. But how often we fail Him! Many times we are preoccupied with
unimportant clutter that takes our focus off the One we should be worshipping.
Just as God brought the Israelites out of Egypt so that they were free to
worship him will all their hearts, He wants to set us free from the things of
this world that hold us captive and keep us from worshipping Him
single-mindedly and whole-heartedly.
Priscilla
Shirer warns against the “pharaohs” that may enslave us….the pharaohs of
religious boundaries, the need to please, a relationship or even comparing
ourselves to one another. We don’t have to be enslaved….Ask God to set you free
and fill you with joy.
John 8:36 gives us a joyful truth: “ So if
the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!”
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