The Heavenly Fulcrum

Matthew 6:33-34 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

We stood in his parking lot, right beside the road, and I prayed for him to move forward in his life as a Christian. I had seen God prepare his heart, open his heart, and watch his heart’s reaction to God using me to encourage him. While I may have played some minuscule part in God’s plan, I was blessing by God immeasurably by it. I am no different from him, or you, or anybody else out there that desires to live the life as a disciple of Jesus Christ; now please do realize I did not say Christian, for their is a big difference, one that may have eternal consequence. Many Christians question their heavenly security, and live their lives in worry of if they are heaven bound. They question their salvation, all the while proclaiming Christ, yet not living for Christ, and that is where the question begins and grows, but hopefully a change of heart and dedication to Jesus before the question becomes eternal. Many Christians will not go to heaven. Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. The sermon of Matthew seven is rarely spoke of in today’s pulpits, the message is not popular in seeker churches today; a message of hope that packs pews, but never preaches on sin, and Hell, and the call of Jesus to lay down our lives for him just as he did us. Nowhere in the Bible is the Sinner’s Prayer, but a call to become a disciple and evangelize.

I was sharing my faith, sharing how I had prayed about something as simple as buying his truck, and God had given me a clear answer. I saw it in his eyes, as he asked how I truly lived on such faith. God had prepared his heart, and I was just now a mouthpiece for God. We talked for some time, he had the faith, but just wanted to know how to apply it to his life and business. God had prepared my both my personal and business testimony for him to hear. I told him my life changed when I truly began to seek God daily in prayer and his Word; the exact same thing will happen to everyone that does it; you cannot remain the same person you were the day before when you spend time with God the first thing each day. It does come with a cost however, a cost that carries weight by worldly standards, but carries heavenly rewards. Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. When your focus becomes eternal, you loose many friends and family that do not share your disciples heart. You become an outsider to many, for you make most uncomfortable with living your life differently. You have made an enemy in Satan, who God will allow to test you, but through all of it, He strengthens you for this temporal war you are engaged in. God uses every trial of life to show you his sovereignty, and you as his disciple can testify of his control through it, You become the light in dark situations, because even those in darkness know their need for him; they just have not dedicated their life fully to him.

If you are content with your life as a Christian, I pray for God to make you uncomfortable. If you are sailing through life, partying it away, still in church on Sunday, I pray he will show you how religion kills, but Jesus saves. If you know something is missing in your faith, I pray that he opens your heart and mind to seek him in prayer and his Word. The measure of your life is found in the time you spend in both. If you believe your life is measured on the scales of how you live, either good or bad, change the scale to time with God verses everything else. The fulcrum of the scale is your heart, not time, for God does not recognize time. Your scale of measurement is off in any degree, for God is the fulcrum of your hearts desire.