God Allows You To Have Christ Encounters....What You Do With Them Is Your Choice.....

In life we have choices.   We choose what to wear.   We choose where to live.   We choose our jobs, our mates, our churches.   Yes there are times when the options don't seem as vast or as varied.   But we still choose whether or not to accept what is before us.    Our greatest choice that we ever have to make is ..... will we choose to serve God?   Will we choose to lay aside everything else in our lives to live for Him?   To pursue Him?   A pursuit is not just sitting around and telling people that you are saved.   A pursuit is a quest.   It is an active effort to attain.   You are not pursuing God if you are not reading your Bible.   You are not pursuing God if you are not praying.   You are not pursuing God if you are not reaching out to others to tell them about the goodness and the grace of God.  

Active Pursuit.....

In order to pursue, you have to know what you are pursuing.    Ask yourself what are you pursuing when you say that you are pursuing God.   Are you pursuing His love, His grace, His understanding.   Or are your reasons for pursuit selfish in nature?   For your own glory and edification.    Know why you pursue.  

Why do you serve?   Why do you give?  Or do you give?   If you look around and see a need.   A need for prayer.....do you pray?   Someone who needs to pay a bill.....do you help?   Someone who needs guidance...do you try to lead them and instruct them in the way they should go?   Or do you sit back and look and say you don't know why they keep going through what they go through or just say that you will pray for them when God has placed it within your means to be a help.

One thing we must understand today.   Every test that someone is going through is not necessarily their test.   It may be your test.   It may be God checking you to see what you will do with the resources He has entrusted to you.   He may want to see what you will do with the Word that is inside of you.   Will you pray?   Will you provide?   Will you lead and guide?  

Don't always overlook someone else's journey.   Especially when God has brought about an encounter.   Encounters are not by chance.   The things that God allows you to see....the people that God allows you to come in contact with..... NONE OF IT IS BY CHANCE.   

What you do with these encounters is your choice.

Worship For Today....

"While I Am Waiting"

Ministered By John Waller