Thursday, December 13, 2007

Prist like Melchizedek

I feel very inadequate for so many many reasons posting on this blog. First this is my first blog post ever which seems enough but more importantly I've been asked to blog about the bible readings to a group of people who I feel are much more knowledgeable on the topic then myself.

So I decided to simply share how God has been working in my heart for the past weeks. I think many people know Lynn and I have been taking premarital classes at Moody for the past couple of months. I was approaching the class like a to-do task on a list to check off so we could go ahead and get married. In our last one on one session with the pastor running the class he said something to the effect of "get right with God and the marriage will take care of itself".

That didn't really hit me until the following week when I was listening to the pastor James sermon. I realized that I was approaching the marriage and my relationship with God all wrong.
  • Go to church on Sunday
  • Bible Study on Wednesday
  • Talk about getting closer to God
I had been checking items off the list every week, talking a good game but I wasn't really living the life of a Christian. I needed to stop talking about it and go do it. "Get right with God" and let the rest of my life take care of itself. It's funny how God opens the paths and lead you to him, as that was the week pastor James told me of the daily bible readings and what better way to draw near to God then a daily QT reading the bible. All that to tie it to today's bible verse which says:

Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith
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5 comments:

  1. jiDecember 14, 2007 at 11:46 AM

    Thank you, Sung, for sharing...

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  2. DLDecember 14, 2007 at 12:30 PM

    Thanks Sung, your blog really encouraged me!

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  3. kwijungDecember 14, 2007 at 1:03 PM

    Sung..
    God delights in us when we are most satisfied with Him. The great reward is God Himself as we seek Him. There is inconceivable joy and satisfaction of surrendering my life to Him. He gives greater thirst for Him alone.
    "As the dear pants for the water, so my soul longs after thee..."

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  4. eullieDecember 14, 2007 at 3:36 PM

    I am very task oriented myself and I've done this so much in my life. I live day to day by my check lists and feel an extreme sense of satisfaction when I get to cross a task off the list...its a bit of an addiction.

    Its so easy to just go, go, go trying to control everything in our daily lives but miss out on what is most important--our relationship with God. Your post hits home... Thanks for sharing!

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  5. darlayooDecember 17, 2007 at 10:45 PM

    your blog was right on the money! it is so easy to reduce the Christian life to a series of tasks to "check off the list".

    the Christian life is a relationship with the living God, through Jesus Christ, pure and simple. if this relationship is right, everything else in our life will be right, even when everything goes wrong.

    our relationship with God should be the first and last priority in our lives, but how we foolishly try to fix everything else first!

    "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and ALL these things will be added to you".
    matthew 6:33

    many of us have committed this verse to memory as a child, but why we seem to understand it less the older we get is something i'll never comprehend.

    as we prepare ourselves to enter into a new year, may we receive these words with a heart of a little child, that we may never be too old and wise in our own eyes to receive its glorious truths.

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