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Friday, June 23, 2006

Seperating the Performance from the PersonSeperating the Performance from the Person
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There was something said in the SUnday evening church service that has really stayed with me throughout the week, and as I sat today thinking what to write towards MMM as an editorial thuough, it was a statement that came back at me.

God wants you to worship his person, not his performaces

And while many of you can read this and say in agreement that this is something we should do. Applying this to our use of mobile technology for His service, we find that there can be some conflict of interests.

For example, I used to believe that carrying a whole lot of reference materials with me made me look knowledgeable, and because it was God who granted me the PDA and materials, I could get by with saying that "I can look that up for you." What this points to however, is a lack of studying (2 Tim. 2:15-16), lack of discipline (James 1:5-8), and just a lack of care towards my neighbor (Prov. 10:8). I had in fact used the performance of God as the basis by which I would demonstrate his person to others. Whoops.

This is easy to do with the copious amounts of data that is available today at our fingertips. And it is not hard to fall into this type of pride. I want to encourage all of you with this:

- If you are spending more time administering to your gift, rather than using it to bless others, then you have taken something God has given you to get closer to His person, and you made it a performance-lord in your life.
- If you spend more time towards being in your gift, than being in front of the face of God, then you have made that gift a performance-lord over your life.

I urge you, get away from the computer or whatever it is for a day or so, and then get infront of the face of God for some good face time.

A few days removed from Egypt, the Israelites got a close encounter with God of the thundering kind. God's reasoning to Moses was that them seeing God so close will help them to be endeared to Him as time wore on in the wilderness. However, when the people forgot that present presence of God, they drerw themselves to idos and other items. Be diligent and hearken to the voice of the Lord, and by doing so you will draw more men to Him because of Him, rather than because of your gift.
- sent from Treo