Bible references: Roman 2:4, Acts 17:27–28, Acts 18:2, Matthew 13:3–8, Luke 8:11–12, 1 Peter 5:8, Ezekiel 36:26–28, Acts 13:7
In any race we come from, God commands that we seek Him. There was once a time we believers derailed from the pathway of God.
Ephesians 2:12 - That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 - But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Thank God for His grace and mercy that set us in alignment with God. People are at great loss if they lack the person of Christ in their life. The sole purpose why we exist is to know God, and we can't be able to do so without accepting Christ. Christ–who is the son of God–is the link that connects us to His father in heaven.
Here is what happens when we accept Christ to have His way in our lives:
Ezekiel 36:26 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
It is our nature as humans to have stony hearts. Brother Eli discussed on a parable about the sower. There was a case of the seeds falling on stony places. Such surface prevents the seeds from germinating and bearing fruit. The surface here talks about the nature of the heart. People with stony hearts resists the word of God.
That was the case of many of us untill we allowed God to deal with our hearts and made it receptive towards His word. The word of God is what Jesus brought to us so that we might know how to live our lives in accordance to God's will.
Compliments of the season!
