PRESUMPTIONS

According to the dictionary, presumption means an assumption, often not fully established, that is taken for granted in some piece of reasoning.

I used to take everything in presumptions when it comes to my relationship with the Lord. I thought what I know is enough. But when the Lord give me the understanding- that to earn the Kingdom Lifestyle, I must have to depend on Him everything. To depend means to freely give my everything in total obedience to God's will.

It is written in the Bible that we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Fear here as to my experience is not the fear that we have to overcome. It is the Holy Fear of the Lord that we must always possess, to enable us to be not presumptive in our relationship with Him. It is not something that we just have to say or talk about but it is something that we have to work out and apply as the Lord reveals it to us.

I want to qoute the words written by Choo Thomas in her book Heaven is so Real! as to the the importance of obedience. "...Whoever wants to be with the Lord Jesus forever must work for His salvation daily, all the days of his life. We cannot be off-and-on Christians, because we do not know when He is coming for His people. When you get used to a lifestyle of total obedience, you won't want it any other way. When our lives are totally obedient to the Lord, we never have to worry about anything. From time to time we are required to go through certain tribulations and trials. Through these we learn that we always can depend on the Lord and that, no matter what, we have our peace and joy with and from Him".

To fully obey and know God's will in our lives we must not take for granted our relationship with the Lord. We must inquire and come to Him to know Him more. As our elders in our church family always says, "we cannot outgive nor outlove God because he is love and the giver of life but we are a people who are in need of Him. Apart from Him we are nothing".

The Lord has blessed us with everything we need and want in our lives, we just don't realize and see it sometimes because we are so full of ourselves. But God is Love that is why if we want and choose Him to be the Lord of our lives, He will give us GRACE to understand things and WISDOM to apply it according to His ways. Isn't it amazing!