"The Answer!"

"Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High: and call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me." (Psalms 50:14-15) I am sorry for anyone that I offended, it is actually a very good effort to invite people to church, and God will honor any effort like that which is prayed over; but the plain truth of the matter is that people need to see something in us that they want, then there is proof that they need to be there with you; otherwise, they will most likely be offended by something there and never really want to go back. Here is what I see happening all to often, is that people are asking God for something to give Him praise over; as if they want to praise Him, but first He needs to show them something to get excited about. You have heard it time and time again, how that we can get excited over a football game, yet when it comes to praising God, we go flat; we get more excited seeing celebrities on the street than we do praising the Lord. The words "pay thy vows" pretty much says it all when it comes to giving to God, because we do not praise, give thanks, or even give our tithes, because we want to be blessed, we are blessed already; we can never repay God for what He has done for us; never in a thousand years! It is like that song, "It Is Well With My Soul", and how nothing can take away from what God has done, not even the lose of everything. In reference to what Jesus said about hating father, mother, brother or sister, it was not that we would hate anyone, because we are to love everyone; the point was more about comparison to the love we have for Him, and that compared to our love for the Lord, everything of this world comes off like hate; in other words, there is no comparison between the love we have for Him verses any one, or any thing else. When it comes to enduring storms in our lives, the answer really is quite simple, and it all depends on what matters most to us in the end, this world or God... "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness." (Isaiah 41:10)