In our day it just seems there's so much information (false teachings) enticing people that confusion escalates. But then that is a tactic of the enemy of men's souls....flood the mind with information.
I also think people are looking for “more” than Christ because they haven't developed the relationship with Him HE desires. They've established religiosity rather than relationship.
Can't belief I'm still up ....have been fighting to keep either a bad cold or the flu away. So far it hasn't quite caught on...so sleep has escaped me this night....will be trying again soon...thank God I do not have work to go to today!
We were talking about that just last night at Bible study.
How when you're friends with someone, you just want to spend time with them. You aren't trying to get something out of them or about how you can use them. You just want to be with them because of who they are and you enjoy their company and value them as they are.
We need to see our relationship with God that way. Jesus did say He was our friend. When He was talking to people about what wanted, how often did He ask them for details? He IS interested in us.
It occurred to me one day that we have it all backwards (in typical human fashion).
He is really interested in what we are doing and what affects us. All the running the universe stuff that we think is so important, is nothing to Him. It is just the backdrop against which the really important stuff is being played out.
He has put His life into us. We are the pinnacle of His creation. So although the heavens declare or speak of the glory of God, they are just stuff, things, *WE* are created in His image. We can reflect His glory in a whole different way and He does care about us, what we want, what we like and dislike, how we feel about things.
I think it actually pleases Him when we WANT to spend time with Him without all the other distractions. So that takes devotions from a legalistic, gotta do it works kind of activity, to a time of intimacy that we can have of spending time with the light of our lives. Wow! What motivation to grab a Bible and sit down and read it and pray.
Just like when we met that person we were smitten with and wanted to spend the rest of our lives with. So it should be with God.
God, let me be smitten with You!
Which is why it's paramount that we are persuaded that He is able to keep that which we entrust to Him and that we indeed do entrust it to Him! When we know we are accepted by God we can believe that we are to "inherit all things".All things.
In that light "entice" no longer holds any real meaning to us and we can truly be still and know that He is God.There is no 'more' than all.