15 October 2012
Hebrews
12:28-29 Therefore
let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let
us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; for our God is a
consuming fire.
Sometimes when you have
been to church and you have been part of the service, and when you leave you
cannot even remember what the sermon was about and if you were asked what you
sang you could not answer. This may be how some people feel about a church
service. But how would you feel as the preacher, who preaches a sermon that
nobody hears, that the people are so distant from God, because the seriousness
of the worship and the sermon falls on deaf ears? How many of us actually take
worship seriously with the thought that this is God we are worshipping, and it
is God speaking through the preacher?
Yet no matter the attitude
of the preacher or the congregation there are still those within the
congregation who are blessed through the moments in the presence of God. Just
as many people heard and witnessed what Jesus did, how many actually realised
that they had been in the presence of God, rather than listening to a man speak
and watched some spectacular entertaining event. The question that you and I
need to answer is why do you actually attend church and do you recognise that
our God is a consuming fire?
Be encouraged today to be
diligent in worship and attentive to the Word of God.
David
Point to ponder: God speaks through His preachers.
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