In The World But Not of It

The other night I was asleep and I heard a voice say "you still use your turn signal when nobody is watching" and I woke up, eyes wide open. It felt like someone was there saying it to me. Wether it be of God or of my imagination, I fell back asleep and in the morning I remembered and started to think on what that might mean, if anything at all. I had been praying and seeking God more so than usual and I had heard a phrase in my dreams before when I was seeking God that woke me up in the same way. Lately I've been praying for the ability to write or share the gospel on my phone, since that's one resource I take for granted and often use for entertainment instead of anything with eternal value.

I started to think about the phrase I heard, so I asked why? why do I use my turn signal when no cars are around. "Because it's the law and I recognize the submission to laws and the ability for a camera or cop to catch me and hold me accountable to the law, at any time." As silly as the analogy may sound, I think it opened areas of my heart up to realize how I have been living. We are commanded to submit to authorities when the laws don't go against the word of God and I feel that I do that well. I am always super cautious as to not do the wrong thing, get in trouble, or break the rules when it comes to anything on earth. My realization was that my fear of man has been far greater than my fear of God. When I don't recognize God as who He is in His divine power and authority, all of His commands and words get dumbed down in my head, causing me to not take it as serious as it actually is.

When I am in an earthly state of mind, not recognizing who God is, my prayer life is non existent, writing a blog is impossible, helping build others up fails, along with anything else that comes from God. I have desire to grow and I try to ask God, but I have learned that it is impossible to grow spiritually if I do not give God full glory and credit for who He is. Once He becomes greater than everything else, that is when He can use me and mold me into someone I couldn't become on my own power. I have been in a state of doubting the power of supernatural things but all of that is built off of me living for myself, my plans, and my friends first and then trying to incorporate God into that flow. The reality is the only way I can live my life according to Gods word is to put Him above ALL else seek Him and THEN overflow that onto others around me.

Jeremiah 17:5 says, "Thus says the Lord, "cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, who's heart departs from the Lord."

Jeremiah 17:7 says, "blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and who's hope is in the Lord."

Galations 1:10 says this, "for do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservent of Christ."

Matthew 6:20 says, "but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal."