Above The Noise

There is so much stuff in the world today wanting our attention, that it is hard to define a time to isolate ourselves and focus only on the Lord. What has crept into our lives that has taken the place of the Lord in our thoughts? It is so easy to be engulfed in the material things that we enjoy and place our focus on those or the ability to get those that we crowd out the Lord. Because God went first and sacrificed what is most precious to him to save us, he can ask us to surrender ourselves to him. However, God doesn’t ask anything of us without giving us the ability and instruction to do it. Rom. 12:2 instructs us how to accomplish what God asks of us. We are to renew our minds by study and meditation of God’s Word. This way we learn to hear and act upon what God has enlightened to us. Each day that we offer ourselves to Jesus as his servants, we also are offering him our worship. Every time that we consciously resist evil and choose good, we are offering pleasing and acceptable worship to God. Each day our decisions and actions are crucial parts of our worship to God!

The issue is that we want to keep crawling off the altar. We must surrender ourselves, our will, our time, our heart, our commitment, to God each day. Otherwise, God’s altar is empty and we build another altar to hold the things of our imagination!