Good morning people who find God in the pages of the Bible.
Psalm 119:2-3 NIV Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart—they do no wrong but follow his ways.
God is not after blind obedience without relationship. His greatest desire is not that we simply do no wrong, but rather that we seek Him with all our heart and know Him as our Father and Friend.
Intimacy with God is God’s greatest desire for us.
The problem with sin is that it separates us from God. It is not so much about the wrongdoing – it is more about the broken relationship. Even as believers, while we are still saved we can often step back from God in guilt and shame when we do the wrong thing. This is not God’s desire for us as His heart is always towards us.
God’s Word takes the guesswork out of our relationship with God.
In the Bible, we clearly find what God likes and what God hates. When loving God is the greatest pursuit of our lives, knowing this becomes really important to us. Because we love God, we want to honour God, and we do this by doing those things that delight His heart.
What would happen if we replaced an obsession with not sinning with an obsession to love God?
The essence of the Bible is the God of Love reaching out to those He created. When this becomes our filter and focus, God’s Word becomes our daily meditation.