Seize the Moments - Vol 1  Day 9  Am I Doing the Best for God

What generally really keeps us from doing the best (the things that God would prefer that we do, the things that would be surrendered to God) is doing something very good.  The enemy of the best is always that which is very good.  When we are convinced that what we are doing is good, especially very good, we rarely even consider that it might not be the right thing or God’s thing.  

We place a high priority on our Christian service, winning souls to Jesus, witnessing for Christ or whatever we hold dear spiritually as a highly valued pursuit.  We pursue these activities and hang on to them with tenacity like it is our lifeline to God.  Yet this is not what satisfies the heart of God.

God wants us to submit entirely to His Holy Spirit, listening to His still, small voice.  God desires our complete and utter surrender.  He desires to actually activate our bodies and conduct our lives for us.  Again, the enemy of the best is the very good.  We are rarely deceived into thinking that the wicked and evil is the right thing to do.  It's easy to flee and shun those things.  But it is not easy to avoid the temptation of receiving at least some little bits of credit or affirmation for doing something for God.  But He is not satisfied with that.  He wants us to get out of the way and let the Holy Spirit do through us just as the Holy Spirit did through Jesus.

      -- JB    ref.   Romans 6:12-14;   Galatians 2:20