Grateful The Lord Influences My Week

Tomorrow is Sunday. This week I am once again struck with a pitfall that I witness in western society, i.e. western Europe, and the Americas. While the rest of the world has been on fire with the flames of evangelism for the last 200 or 300 years, we have become too familiar with the flames of God, or at least we think we know everything about His ways to the point that He’s taken…
for granted (speaking of “we” in layman’s terms).

grateful the Lord influences my week
* written yesterday for another outlet

For instance, how much of a transformative effect do we allow our Sunday and weekly groups to take on the rest of our week?

Or think of worship. We are witnessing the greatest worship revival in music history, but do the fires of worship on Sunday burn at all throughout the week, or even make it to our streaming playlists?

In my morning read I was reminded of all of the sons of Aaron, the sons of Eli, and Ananias and Sapphira (Lev x, 1 Sam i, Acts v).

All of these people are punished because they have one thing in common. They take the holy, they take the sacrifice, they take the sacred office and sacred space…
for granted.

Whatever God has for you as you gather with His people on the weekends, or during the week, please do not forget who you are meant to be, and how you are meant to live, throughout the week.

Otherwise your sacrifice may very well stop being graced by the Spirit and His holy fire, and become something weird…
“strange fire” (Lev x.1, KJV).

Well, when I pray through Scripture about all these things, it can be a little rough for people. Duplicity is rough for those who live like that, and for those they leave in their wake. I’m sorry it’s so serious today.