Bible Verse of The Day – 4-24-24

Exodus 3:10 (NKJV) 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Noah, build an ark.

Abraham, leave your country.

Moses, tell pharaoh to let My people go.

Jonah, go to Nineveh and preach repentance.

David, go slay Goliath, the giant.

Peter, leave your fishing nets, follow me, and I will make you a fisher of men

Saul, stop persecuting Me. You are now Paul. Bring my message to the Gentiles.

As we spend time in God’s word, and we learn about the people listed above that God has called and used over the centuries, we will begin to see a common thread that runs through their lives; their lives belonged to Him. They were not their own.

And as we learn this, we should begin to see that this is the case for each of us as well; we are not our own.

Yet, despite this, we get inundated with feel-good messages that claim God wants us to live lives of grandeur, overflowing with abundant blessings, wild popularity, and everything we desire.

Most of this is based on the perversion of a small, select handful of scriptures, which gives it the appearance of legitimacy if we fail to do our homework and find the truth ourselves.

These teachings would lead the uninformed to believe that following God is a cake walk that is centered on us and does not incur a cost.

But look at that list of people above and what God told each of them.

Doing so demonstrates clearly that their loyalty to God cost them everything they had.

This does not mean they were poor, or that they lacked what they needed in life. But there was a human cost; a toll on each of their lives.

Now, this is not to say that each of us must follow the same paths as these people.

But we must take note of what Jesus told us is required to follow Him.

Luke 9:23 (NKJV) 23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

When I hear many of the teachings mentioned above, it is difficult to find one mention of denying ourselves. It is even more difficult to hear a single mention of picking up our cross.

That surely speaks volumes about what is at the core of their messages; self.

Let us run far from these kinds of teachings, sticking like glue to the truth of God’s word and to God Himself, denying ourselves when he asks us to do so and carrying our cross toward the finish line.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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