What Are You Deeming As Acceptable In Your Life? It's Time To Arise and To Shine For God ...

What you want is not always what God wants for you.  What you desire is not always based on Godly desires.   You have to understand that everything is not acceptable to God.   When something is acceptable, it is capable or worthy of being accepted.   One definition of acceptable says that it means to be pleasing to the receiver.    Make sure you are judging the things you want in your life based on God's standard of acceptance and not your own.   Make sure You are seeking those things that will not necessarily appeal to your flesh but that would be pleasing to God.  

It's easy to get caught up in what we want, when we want it, and how we want it.   Our flesh cries out daily for things but we have to constantly subdue our flesh and seek after those things that are right, just, and pleasing to the Father.   We can't just want someone else's husband or wife and think that it's okay.   We can't just want to live a sinful lifestyle (doing things that we know are not right and not pleasing to God) and think that it's okay.   IT'S NOT!  

We have to cultivate Godly desires.   Our GREATEST want should be to please God.  When that is our GREATEST desire, we will seek after those things that are right, just, and pleasing in His sight and when we seek after those things, God will bless us with those things.  

It's time to ARISE and SHINE.   It's time to live life FULLY for the Father.   After all, He is the giver of life.   It is in Him that we live, breathe, and have our being.    What does it look like when you take the life that He has given and use it for everything He is against?    That's not giving Him thanks.   That's like given your child money to go buy food and clothing and they use it to go buy drugs and to party.    Would you be pleased if they took what you sacrificed to give them and used it in a way that is totally unacceptable to you?

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Romans 12:1

King James Version (KJV)

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"To Be Pleasing You"

Ministered By Marantha Singers

REFERENCE / CITATION:   To Be Pleasing You - Maranatha Singers. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9O1GPUqn8M