DOES GOD DESIRE TO BE FAMOUS? (2 OF 2)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Samuel 12:17-21
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Does God Desire to Be Famous? (2 of 2)
Series: God Matters
Scott Maze
1 Samuel 12:17-21
We need to raise the spiritual temperature of our churches... and in our homes. For many of us, we continue to operate at a low spiritual temperature in our homes and our church. Others come into our homes or in our churches to check out God. They get near us and they immediately sense that our spiritual temperature is cold. They rub their hands together and think, ''Their God mustn't be great or else, this place would be warm.'' Their love of Him would be contagious. So, many leave our presence and find something or someone else to worship. Instead of saving of us money in the cold winter of the first decade after the millennium, this lowering of the spiritual thermostat is costing us.
During a religious festival in Katmandu, Nepal, all the schools, business, and other establishments were closed because of the religious holiday. It was a day of worship for those whose Hindu faith caused them to bow down before one of several million deities. A missionary stopped to watch a Hindu women bowing low, chanting, and prostrating herself in the middle of a busy street on this holiday. She had seen this ritual of worship many times, but what caught her attention this day was that the women bowed before a pile of yak dung! A Yak is a domesticated ox. There among this ugly mental picture you are now forming was a women who scattered her flowers and devoted herself in worship for all to see. She suffered no embarrassment. Nor did she show any sign of hesitation. She had no fear of disrupting traffic of provoking anyone's ridicule. The reason I bring this missionary's story up is this: I worship the One, True, Living God, and yet probably do so with less zeal than this Hindu women who worships a pile of dung.
We exist in a day when generations of people are lethargic and apathetic about God. And the generation after us is seeing this. They know what lights our fuses. Conseque ...
Series: God Matters
Scott Maze
1 Samuel 12:17-21
We need to raise the spiritual temperature of our churches... and in our homes. For many of us, we continue to operate at a low spiritual temperature in our homes and our church. Others come into our homes or in our churches to check out God. They get near us and they immediately sense that our spiritual temperature is cold. They rub their hands together and think, ''Their God mustn't be great or else, this place would be warm.'' Their love of Him would be contagious. So, many leave our presence and find something or someone else to worship. Instead of saving of us money in the cold winter of the first decade after the millennium, this lowering of the spiritual thermostat is costing us.
During a religious festival in Katmandu, Nepal, all the schools, business, and other establishments were closed because of the religious holiday. It was a day of worship for those whose Hindu faith caused them to bow down before one of several million deities. A missionary stopped to watch a Hindu women bowing low, chanting, and prostrating herself in the middle of a busy street on this holiday. She had seen this ritual of worship many times, but what caught her attention this day was that the women bowed before a pile of yak dung! A Yak is a domesticated ox. There among this ugly mental picture you are now forming was a women who scattered her flowers and devoted herself in worship for all to see. She suffered no embarrassment. Nor did she show any sign of hesitation. She had no fear of disrupting traffic of provoking anyone's ridicule. The reason I bring this missionary's story up is this: I worship the One, True, Living God, and yet probably do so with less zeal than this Hindu women who worships a pile of dung.
We exist in a day when generations of people are lethargic and apathetic about God. And the generation after us is seeing this. They know what lights our fuses. Conseque ...
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