Why have God as your Lord?

Why have God as your Lord

This truth is very precious but often not understood and mostly missed out on. The choice we make to accept God as our Lord or to have God merely as God is up to our individual choice. But the implications of our choice matter much, yet few discern the differences! 

If we merely know God as God, our thinking is similar to that of Satan, who also thinks that way. 

James 2:19 NKJV You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that–and shudder.

Yes, the Bible clearly says that Satan knows God as God. 
But to a few people : 
who believe in God and obey His commandments, 
those who love Him & surrender their lives to God, 
God is their Lord.
He is the Lord God to those people.

Why be a disciplined Christian?

Why a Christian should be disciplined?

Discipline of a Christian
As Christians we are to pray and read the Bible daily. Ideally we are to have a quiet time with God daily, hear Him daily.  We are to praise and worship Him daily at home. We are to have a daily quiet time at home.  We are to go to church and worship God as a community. We are to have Holy Communion as often as possible. We need to forgive ourselves and others. We need to be obedient to what the Lord directs us to. We need to be willing to sacrifice as well as share and be charitable. We need to love ourselves and others. And many more.

All these may not be our default nature, but we can choose to discipline ourselves in all these. Most importantly we need to love God above all and be fully confident about His great love towards us. We have this verse from Proverbs 3:5-6 which says this.  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. All these are elements of a disciplined Chritian life. With discipline complemented by faith we can develop a consistent lifestyle which pleases our Lord and saviour.  

Presence of God and rest

Presence of God and rest

We like to rest. We love breaks when we study and even when we work. We wait for weekends and holidays so we can have some rest.

But as a Christian, we can choose to rest any time, any day of the week. Yes, this is true. This depends precisely on what we choose to think and where we consider ourselves to be. 

Exodus 33:14 has a very powerful key to rest. The verse is given below as per a few different verses of the Bible. You can read that this is an assurance from God to Moses.

And He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (NKJV)