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"Building the new temple together" Divine service from 2022 Community Edition 4
Because God is with us and lives in our hearts, we want to please God and not human beings. This seems obvious, but it isn’t. When one sees how much energy people put into pleasing others… They do everything just to be like others, to conform to the prevailing opinion, to say exactly what others say just to get a few Likes on social media. They want to be accepted by others. Or, to use the language of the Bible, they want to please human beings. But what about God?
Let us show that God lives in our hearts. If this is the case, it will always be more important for us to please God than to please human beings. We should also demonstrate that God not only lives in our hearts, but that He also works both in the church and in our hearts. This becomes visible through our spiritual development. I know this is nothing new. This has been preached for decades and centuries. But I am wondering, and seriously wondering, how things are in terms of our spiritual development.
It is nice to hear, “Yes, we are preparing for the return of Christ, we attend the services, we bring our offerings and sacrifices.” However, the question that arises then is always the same: “Have we changed?” Everybody can answer this for themselves. Please, don’t look at your neighbour, look at yourself. I am absolutely honest: I am not happy with my own answer. We have to work on it. There are so many things we should and could change in our thinking, in our way of living. We should trust God a little bit more in certain situations. We could, we should, behave differently towards our neighbour. There is still a lot of work to do.
Let us demonstrate that God is active in His church and in our hearts. Remember, we are determined to be transformed into the image of Christ. God does His part, but we have to do ours.