Is Your Spiritual Life Self-Focused?

Is Your Spiritual Life Self-Focused?

What is God doing for me? Why doesn’t God fix this?! I go to church but I don’t get anything out of it. I have tried to serve the Lord, but things don’t work out right. These are common questions, but dangerous ones. We can see faith (if one had it at all) is fading with a real possibility of disappearing.

Personal earthly benefits and improvements in my life’s circumstances are not the purposes of a commitment to God. Too many teachers, unfaithful to the word of God, are helping people hold this misconstrued view of God’s word. Clear in God’s word is the teaching focus on spiritual blessings. These blessings include spiritual benefits we receive, but even these serve the purpose of honoring and praising our Creator.

True religion is not for self-service but for God-service. It is not for the pursuit of material blessings, personal preferences, physical health and well-being. It is to make us a people that exist to the glory of God. Read Ephesians chapter one – carefully and repeatedly. I think you will find that Christianity is not for self service but for God service. Note the following excerpts:

“having predestined us to adoption as sons … to the praise of the glory of His grace” (Ephesians 1:5-6).
“In Him also we have obtained an inheritance … that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory” (Ephesians 1:11-12).

“God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ.” Therefore “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 1:3).

We need to worry more about what we are doing for God than about what He is doing for us! We can be sure that He is way ahead of us!!!