"Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil." (Ecclesiastes 5:1 KJV)
"Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven! When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise: "Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also." This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire." (Hebrews 12:25-29 NLT)
Every once in a while, we get to hear a message that will shake us up, making us start to pay attention to how we respond to God's voice; if we are really hearing His voice at all, paying attention is a good start, but how we respond is what is most important! Always be prepared to be moved, because we are never going to not need improvement!
We started with this new life in Christ, feeling as if we were indestructible and part of a family that was always going to have our backs; only to discover we are meant to be torn apart, and part of that faithful family would literally take our backs from us! Maybe you have seen that illustration, where one sick figure has the spine of another's back, with the message, "I got your back!"
As I said, we all have flaws and are not perfect; but there is One who was, is, and always will be: Christ Jesus! He not only has our back, but He is our back, front, side, and everything else in-between; We must be transformed into the image of Christ, yet there are none of us that are there quite yet, but it is going to happen, someday, in a twinkling of an eye...
"The Scriptures tell us, "The first man, Adam, became a living person." But the last Adam - that is, Christ - is a life-giving Spirit. What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man." (1 Corinthians 15:45-49 NLT)
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