INTRO: Coming back to God, the more I consider this matter, the more I see that the greatest difficulty lies in our own coming to recognize where we are; what our own state is. Now, there is such a thing as not needing to come back to God. That is a Christian that lives right. He lives humbly, he prays to God, he seeks God’s face, and things are right in his life. May that be true of each one of us.
And yet we have seen in Job, a perfect and upright man, in whom something was setting in and he did not know it. So, the subject of coming back to God is well worth considering for all of us. For those who live right, I trust it is an encouragement to continue to live a God glorifying life. Nothing brings more glory to God than a life lived by faith. Without faith, Scripture says, it is impossible to please God. And living by faith is an obedient life to the Lord.
What we have considered is the first two steps man needs to take in coming back to God, and they are first humility and then prayer. The prayer it speaks of I believe, is not prayer in general, but it is the prayer of confession. And in the last message we gave consideration to the reason why God created us. He created us for His glory. We were created for Him, not for us. And only when we fulfill that purpose, can we be truly fulfilled in our lives. And within that purpose, we found that prayer is also for the purpose that God may be glorified |
