Have you ever thought to yourself, "There must be life outside of a relationship with God. There has to be a way I can do my thing without living for Him like that." You may have thought, "What's the big deal?" So we look and search for any amount of success achieved outside of a relationship with God, and we get excited over even the smallest glimpse of accomplishment. One day we all will realize that the words of Jesus are true in John 15:5 where He said, "Without Me you can do nothing." I think in some way we think Jesus was kidding. We tell ourselves, "surely that's not the case. Look I've accomplished this or did that and I don't even know God like that." What we don't understand is that our life is like a rose. Connected to God, we're full of life and blossoming. Connected to Him, we are vibrant and experience His grace and goodness, but what happens to the rose when it's cut from the vine? If you've ever received roses from someone, you admire their beauty and quickly place them in a vase. The first day you pass by the vase and you blush and smile because the roses are so very beautiful. Then comes the second day, you pass by them and the roses still look beautiful. Then the third day, you start to see signs of discoloration and the water begins to look dirty and so you empty the water and pour in clean water, and you stand back and smile once again, admiring your beautiful roses. Then after a few more days, you clearly see the roses are no longer as vibrant, and you say, "my lovely roses are dying!" But I'm here to tell you those roses died the minute they were cut from the vine! If you're not connected to God, you're not dying, you're dead already. You just don't see the color change, the dirty water, the withering and drying effect in your life yet. It's overtime, that we experience the hopelessness, and condemnation, and torturing thoughts, and darkness that we have apart from a growing relationship with God.
Things may appear to be going well for you, but I tell you "success" apart from God is short-lived. There's no life apart from Him. None. I've seen in my personal life the Kesha with God and the Kesha apart from God, and they are two completely different people. In Him I'm brave, confident, and loving and wanting to give everything I have to make someone else's life better. Apart from Him I may seem like a good person, but inwardly I'm insecure, fearful, selfish, depressed and miserable. He has been my life. I need Him and I understand without Him I can't produce anything worth something. I've seen the Kesha apart from God, and I like Kesha in Christ much better. She's much more fun to know and more of a blessing in people's lives. So I encourage you to connect with God and see your relationship with Him as a vital connection that you can never part from for as long as you live. Grow in your relationship with Him and let Him make you successful and a blessing to others. He loves you so very much and wants you to get and stay connected!
No comments:
Post a Comment