Following on from the desire growing inside me to seek God’s face first of all, comes the question, what will it cost? What will it cost to seek God’s face FIRST? What will I have to choose to do, or not do, or think, or say, or desire, in order to seek his face?
There are some things that I don’t actually want to give up. Some heart attitudes, for example. It is more comfortable to pretend that I am perfect, that I don’t need a spring clean in my heart. Unfortunately it is not true.
So I must weigh up… these ‘things’ and the comfort of not admitting that maybe I am not as wonderful as I would like to think I am OR seeking God’s face first and foremost.
I am reading 1 John at the moment. It is a great book! I recommend you check it out. A few of verses really hit me:
‘Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and the pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.’ 1 John 2:15 – 17 ESV
The attitudes in my heart that I want to stay comfortable in are part of the ‘things of this world’ and these things are ‘passing away’.
What is more valuable?
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