Nothing more Attractive

Nothing should be more attractive to us than Jesus Christ. Nothing should; but everything is. Or at least it seems that way to those of us who claim allegiance to Jesus but are constantly pulled to other hints in our tendency to wander and proneness to idolatry.

Forgiveness. The cross. God's love, grace, mercy. These are the reasons why we can even come to God in worship. Nothing should be more attractive to us than Jesus. Nothing but God can satisfy the deepest longings and needs of our hearts. So the task of ordering our lives around and leaning Godward is one that is simply monumental and humanly impossible. We cannot do it save for the grace and mercy of God in Christ. We cannot do it but God can do "exceeding abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think" by His Spirit for His glory. So we are to look to Him, relying on Him, to do in and through us what only He can do. If we or our children profess faith in Christ and follow Him obediently, it will only be due to God's sovereign choice and enabling. We, in His strength, are to follow Him and trust Him for the strength, wisdom and patience to do what pleases Him. and He will be pleased to use us in His process of gathering worshippers who will worship Him "in Spirit and truth" John 4:24.