*DAILY DEW 16/JULY/2022*
*PUTTING GOD FIRST* (III)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country."* (Hebrews 11:13-14 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
Do our hearts burn for Jesus like this? Or did we receive a different gospel? We’ve been told that it’s in our becoming influential in this world that the world would come to know Jesus. So, we successfully deceive ourselves that all our self-seeking, self-glorifying ventures are for the cause of Christ. Well, they say when you repeat a lie often enough it begins to sound like truth. Because tell me when this has ever worked. *Those who have radically changed the world are those who lived as pilgrims in this world, declaring every day that this world is not their home.*
Have I said not to build wealth or lasting legacies? No. God gives wealth and the power to make it. But don’t get it twisted. Jesus didn’t die for that. He couldn’t have, else only believers would be rich and powerful. Call a thing by its name. What you have is ambition. But God does not need it to do His work on the earth. What He needs but sorely lacks are yielded people. People that don’t count their life as any value at all except it is spent doing specifically what He wants. *Don’t be successful at all the good things and miss the God thing for your life.*
John was not successful by any stretch of the human imagination. He dressed weird, ate weird, lived weird, and died young. But Jesus called him the greatest prophet to ever live, and so he was. Just re-examine your priorities today and let me examine mine. Do we want God as an end or as a means to an end? If God withholds all the blessings, if all you had was salvation, would following Jesus still be worth it to you?
_MEDITATION:_
*"And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city."* (Hebrews 11:15-16 (KJV))
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