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Look Again and Consecrate - Jan 26

Published: Feb. 3, 2017, 1:53 a.m.

b'Look Again and Consecrate Jan 26

If God so clothes the grass of the field\\u2026, will He not much more clothe you\\u2026? \\u2014Matthew 6:30

simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us because we will not be simple. How can we maintain the simplicity of Jesus so that we may understand Him? By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, and obeying Him as He brings us the truth of His Word, life will become amazingly simple. Jesus asks us to consider that \\u201cif God so clothes the grass of the field\\u2026\\u201d how \\u201cmuch more\\u201d will He clothe you, if you keep your relationship right with Him? Every time we lose ground in our fellowship with God, it is because we have disrespectfully thought that we knew better than Jesus Christ. We have allowed \\u201cthe cares of this world\\u201d to enter in (Matthew 13:22), while forgetting the \\u201cmuch more\\u201d of our heavenly Father.

\\u201cLook at the birds of the air\\u2026\\u201d (Matthew 6:26). Their function is to obey the instincts God placed within them, and God watches over them. Jesus said that if you have the right relationship with Him and will obey His Spirit within you, then God will care for your \\u201cfeathers\\u201d too.

\\u201cConsider the lilies of the field\\u2026\\u201d (Matthew 6:28). They grow where they are planted. Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don\\u2019t take root anywhere. Jesus said if we would obey the life of God within us, He would look after all other things. Did Jesus Christ lie to us? Are we experiencing the \\u201cmuch more\\u201d He promised? If we are not, it is because we are not obeying the life God has given us and have cluttered our minds with confusing thoughts and worries. How much time have we wasted asking God senseless questions while we should be absolutely free to concentrate on our service to Him? Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience but an ongoing process. Am I continually separating myself and looking to God every day of my life?'