What do you do: religion or love?

Mi amors, greetings.

I hope you've been good?  I had a quite an eventful week, but thanks to God for His faithfulness.

It's another privilege to know Abba's 💓

Sit back, relax and let's enjoy today's wonderful piece together.

Today, so many of us have things really mixed up; we just do some things without having knowledge of them.

Let's have a brief assessment:

Why do I do the things II d?

What's my knowledge of my Maker?

What's my  knowledge of what He wants?

Now, it's storytime........

Doeg was one of King Saul's men. And making an inference from what the Bible said about him in 1 Samuel 22:7, he was a religious man. He was active in religion, he went to the temple to pay a religious vow, to God whom he didn't know nor understand His ways.

King Saul was jealous of David, and by all means wanted to destroy him. David began to ran away from Saul for his life. David got to the priest's place in the course of his running and asked for something to eat. The priest Ahimelech gave David Bread of the Presence to eat and the sword of Goliath whom David had conquered with the help of the Lord. But Doeg was present there that day to perform a religious vow.

King Saul got to know through Doeg that David had been with the priest, so he sent for the priest. Inquiring of David from the priest Ahimelech, he didn't get a positive response and then accused the priest of something likened to treason. He therefore ordered the killing of the priest and his family. None of Saul's men moved because they were afraid to harm the Lord's annointed. 

Later on, it was Doeg that carried out the massacre of the priest and his family; of God's annointed. He didn't stop there, he also massacred people in the town of priests. 

Doeg was religious and zealous, but wasn't spiritual. Do you remember he was paying a religious vow the other day.

You can just be religious and make the costly assumption that you are spiritual. Don't get it mixed up.

Note this: love is the greatest form of religion. If your religiosity does not reflect love, then, you are just wasting time.

Cain was religious. He offered sacrifice to God. It was even his sacrifice that was recorded first, his brother's after, but God accepted his brother's sacrifice; Cain's offering didn't get His approval. This angered Cain, and he slew his brother; murdered him in cold blood.

Cain was a passionate religionist, but wasn't spiritual.

1 Corinthians 13: 1-3 MSG

"If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

If I speak God's word with power, revealing all His mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing."

Zeal without knowledge can be catastrophic.

Vain religiosity, repetitive pattern of empty worship is not what the Holy Spirit requires of us.

He requires that we get the basics right. The fuel driving zeal and passion should be love.

Note also, if it's not genuine, it's not love.

God is not interested in how eloquent you are when you teach His word, He is not interested in how well you can pray in other tongues, He is even not interested in how well you give.......if love is missing.

Christ is the source of love; the real love. And He is the answer for the world today. Check your relationship with Him, not just your activities for Him.

Jesus said "I desire mercy and not animal sacrifices."

#dolovenotjustreligion

Till next week, remain in Abba's love. Adios amigos.

Yours in Christ, 

Lotus🌷