Some of you are so focused on your deliverance from God, rather than your devotion to Him. Check your devotion, not your deliverance. When many of you receive a blessing, expected or unexpected, from God, you get very excited and begin to praise Him and witness to others about what the Lord has done for you. However, there are times when things don’t go so well, some of you forget who God is and won’t even take the time to pay Jesus Christ a prayer, until the next time He delivers you from the “miry clay”! When you do that, your devotion to the Lord needs checking.
Mark 12:30 (ESV) declares: “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” God wants us to be committed to Him in season and out of season. Every day is not going to be Sunday, so as it says in 1 Peter 4:12 (ESV), “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.” If your devotion to God is on point and real, your deliverance should never be something to worry about.
Oftentimes, some of you worry so much about what man thinks about you. Don’t sweat it; I have done it as well, and sometimes still do! It is not important to God about what man thinks of you. What is important to God is, “What do you think about Him”? Do you believe Him? Do you trust in Him? Do you run, curl up, and hide, when things go awry? Do you pray without ceasing, or only when you are in need of deliverance? Are you willing to do as Job said, “If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come” (14:14 KJV). Devotion to God must be spontaneous. If you love God, you cannot put your Christian walk in the corner this Sunday after service, and pick it back up next Sunday morning. Once you become “a soldier in the army of the Lord,” true devotion to God is continual, not gradual.
Always abound in the faith, and never leave home without Him!