Many people seem to think that this means you can get everything you want from God, but that’s not the message in this verse. The message is when you desire God and His ways more than your own, He will give you the desires of your heart. In other words, when your desires and God’s desires for you line up together you will get the assured promises that He wants for you.
Living your life here as if God owes you something is the biggest lie that Satan ever put into the world. God doesn’t owe us anything but we owe Him everything! He provides the air that we breathe and the sunlight for our world to produce food along with the rain to grow all of the vegetables and herbs which make our food taste good. Seek your salvation in Jesus Christ and your appreciation for Him will be more than you can understand. He gives us the joy that our soul seeks every day and the assurance that eternity is with Him.
There are so many sermons being preached by so many preachers yet churches are closing all over our country. Membership is dwindling and people don’t seem to care that the beliefs which shaped our country have gone out of favor with the young and old alike it seems. Some still go to church on a regular basis but many just sit there and barely hear the message at all. What is happening to the church? The people who are in the church don’t seem to care that their beliefs are getting weaker by the year. Even those who live in areas where there are churches on almost every corner of the square seem to have lost their way. Why?
Some people think that it is because of the lack of spiritual teaching, particularly from the Bible, that children and their parents should’ve been exposed to. Some lay the blame at the feet of our government for taking the Bible out of education and for taking prayer out of public schools as well. While those reasons have likely contributed to our country’s moral decay over the last fifty-plus years, it can also be traced to God’s Word and the prophecies contained within it.
At the end of the age, there will be a “falling away” meaning people will gravitate toward other “ways” or pathways to get into eternity and heaven. The problem with this is that there is no other way to get into heaven! Only through belief in Jesus as your Savior and repenting of your sins, then following Jesus for the remaining time that you have will you be able to redeem your sins and be granted righteousness through Christ. I am not saying that you have to do “works” to gain entry into Heaven. I am saying that there has to be a real change in your heart because of the Holy Spirit’s conviction that you need Jesus as your Savior! If you aren’t convicted of your sins and your need of a Savior you wouldn’t look for one. I wouldn’t have sought out Jesus either if I had not been convicted by His Spirit.
At the time of the end of this age, the Church age, there will be a falling away and it is happening. Christians in democratic countries like ours are being persecuted for their beliefs. Right now it isn’t as bad as it is in other countries but it is starting to be seen. This will only get worse, especially when the church is taken up and the world falls into chaos at the beginning of the Tribulation. I am writing this to warn those who have the time right now to seek your Savior while there is still time to do so. Being or becoming a Christian right now is not hard to do, but during the Tribulation, it will be dangerous to the point of losing your life!
Spiritually. Do you walk on your path thinking that you will get to heaven your way? Have you heard about Jesus and walking in His footsteps like His disciples did? Which way will you go?
Many people today hear about Jesus and they hear a very restrictive message. One with all kinds of rules and things that you can’t do or shouldn’t do if you want to go to heaven. Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Me“, so what does that really mean? It means that if you want to go to heaven you have to believe in Him for your salvation and ask Him to change your heart so you can be an ambassador for Him!
If you are walking on your own path and your own ideas about being a good person and basing your salvation on being a good Christian who has been in church for their whole life, you will find yourself on a very slippery slope to hell. Doing “church” and being a good person or at least as good as the person next to you in the church is the devil’s deception. You have to pattern your life by following Jesus and asking Him to help you to be better than you were because only the Holy Spirit can make that change in your heart and your life. You can’t do it on your own!
When Jesus said that the pathway to heaven is narrow He meant exactly what He said. The road which leads people to hell but it looks like the road to heaven, that is the one that Satan is leading many people down. They go to church and give their tithes and they sing the songs and they study their Bibles on a certain night during the week but they aren’t being taught about the salvation that Jesus brings. They are being told that they can get to heaven doing just what they are doing and nothing more. They’re not being told that Jesus is the way to salvation and that He died to save them from hell. They’re not being taught that God provided the way to salvation through Jesus Christ because He is the only way for salvation.
The abundant life that Jesus promised is in eternity. We are not promised wealth or an easy life. Jesus said that we would face troubles in this life because of our faith in Him but He said “don’t be troubled because I have overcome the world“. Seek Him because He is your only way to gain access to eternity in heaven.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 John 2:15-17 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/1jn.2.15-17.KJV
There are only two kinds of people in the world, those who have given their heart to Jesus and those who have refused to let Him in. The line separating them is a very fine line but if you listen to their speech and watch them long enough the difference will be shown clearly. Make sure which side of this line you want to stand on because once this life is over you cannot change what is in your heart or Who you were following at the end of it.
