God doesn’t want your crumbs
God doesn’t want your crumbs; God wants your everything. God wants your every thought, your every action, your every day to be dedicated to Him. And that dedication, that devotion, can’t be counterfeit.
If you are one of the many people who claim the name of God but follow the traditions of man, such as fleshy divisions called denominations, going to buildings wrongly called churches when the church is the body of Christ, not following the Fourth Commandment, and much more, you are counterfeit (Titus 1:16). You are following a false version of Christ, and the only way to change is to repent and follow what God has written, not what man has said God has written.
You may be surprised to hear this stuff is counterfeit, or maybe you just don’t care. After all, these traditions make you feel comfortable. And maybe your life is going just fine with them. If this is how you feel, you are in for a rude awakening come judgment day. Many will say to Jesus on their judgment day that they prophesied, they cast out demons, they did all the supposed good works, but Jesus will say to them, “Depart from Me.” Why? Because they didn’t do the will of His Father (Matthew 7:21-23).
And that will is for you to let Him consume you like the consuming fire that He is (Hebrews 12:2).
If you claim God’s name, if you say you believe in Jesus, if you claim the title of Christian, you must live up to that. You must leave everything behind and follow Him (Luke 14:33). You must pick up your cross daily (Luke 9:23). You can’t sit under an employer that has nothing to do with God five days a week or more just for a paycheck (Matthew 6:24). You can’t read your Bible just to say you read it. You can’t avoid the uncomfortable truth for a comfortable lie.
You have to make sure your daily life is fully dedicated to God. You have to make sure your labor is fully utilizing the gifts that God gave you for His glory, not the glory of man (Colossians 3:23). You have to make sure you’re working diligently with those gifts six days a week and resting on the seventh day (Exodus 20:8-11).
You have to make sure that you are actually reading what God has written, that you are letting God nurture and correct your understanding. You have to reject those around you who preach against God’s Word because they are corrupting you (1 Corinthians 15:33). You have to stop having itching ears.
There is only one truth. A truth God has promised to guide us to (John 16:13).
That truth can put us in uncomfortable positions and make our world feel like it’s turning upside down, but narrow and difficult is the path to life, and only a few find it (Matthew 7:14). I want you to be one of the few. I want you to live up to the name you claim. I don’t want you to be turned away on your judgment day. I want to rejoice with you in eternity. Even if you’re potentially reading this right now and calling me all kinds of names in the book. I forgive you, I love you, and I want you to get right with God before it’s too late.
So if you are someone who isn’t right with God, repent and ask Him to guide your steps so you can start to live in such a way that brings Him glory. It may be hard, it may seem bleak, but it is worth it. And we must do it. No matter what people say.
