There is a Higher Call
“You shall love Yahveh your Elohim (your God) with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5). “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). Yahveh is not a God that is far off, He is as near as our breath. (See Jeremiah 23:23). What comes out of our breath is what is in our hearts. Our God is looking at our hearts, “For the eyes of Yahveh move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His…” (2 Chronicles 16:9). We can look really good to one another and think we are doing fine, but, “If you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” (1 Corinthians 10:12).
I hope you don’t think you are standing firm. There is a higher call for each of us, a much higher call. May Yahveh (the LORD) show us how far short we fall from His glory. We have houses, we have this and that, and we have a certain form of religion; but the purest and most powerful presence of Yahshua (Jesus) is yet to fill and keep us in a place where we are reverent and continually obedient to His mighty plans and purposes. We are in a form of religion if we continue living our lives where His power is not called upon, not exerted through us to push back and crucify our flesh so that we are continually moving forward by the might of His Spirit.
There is so much more that we could be doing for Him; there is so much more He could be doing through us—but He doesn’t force us. We can give Him more of ourselves, but we have to mean it. This halfhearted, lukewarm business is such a sin to the Holy One who says, “because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth” (Revelation 3:16). We don’t want to be the cause of His righteous indignation.
In the last days Yahveh says He is going to send a “… refiner’s fire … like fullers’ soap” (Malachi 3:2). Our flesh never likes the process of death; it hates it. So many run from it and live it up, saying, “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die” (1 Corinthians 15:32). Don’t be like the heathen Gentiles, whose “… god is their stomach …” (Philippians 3:19). What are you filling yourself up with? What “god” do you hunger and thirst after? “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6).
