God is everywhere

Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
     If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! - Psalm 139:7-8

 

No matter where you go, God is there.  For anything to exist He actively makes it exist so that all He has to do for it to cease to exist is to take His presence from that thing.  You truly cannot escape His observation of you.

 

Not only that, but God knows your thoughts.  Every one of them.  And even more, He knows your intentions in everything.  We don't even know our own intentions a lot of the time.

 

The difference between the spiritual man and the man who does not have the Spirit is this: One lives with his life shaped by the knowledge that God is everywhere and one does not.  If you lived with the knowledge that every evil thought and deed you had was laid bare before God, would you find yourself more actively trying to please Him by avoiding more evil than you do?

 

You're Everywhere (song on You Tube) by Third Day:

 

The most important thing

...might not be quite what you expect.

 

It's not food or nutrition, it's not having a roof over your head, it's not finding the perfect church (which doesn't exist), it's not your family, your spouse, or your children.  It's definitely not you.

 

The most important thing is not even your salvation...

 

The most important "thing" is God and His glory.

 

The rest follows according to His will.

 

 

Obeying God

Abraham obeyed God when he went to sacrifice his only son after God requested it.  Would we make a big gesture like this, to prove our devotion?

 

I don't think this is an ordinary situation, so I would doubt your sanity if you were to try to replicate this event today.  Big gestures are easy anyway.  Or easier.  

 

Giving your life to save someone else is fast and simple, even if it is a huge thing.  How much harder to obey God over the course of an entire life though?  How hard it is to obey when He says to love your neighbour, or not to covet!

 

Easier to give your life in a moment (when heaven awaits) than to struggle with obedience for 50+ years of a Christian life.