See The Forest
“You can’t see the forest for the trees.”
You’re so focused on the small details, YOU’VE MISSED THE POINT
(Psalm 121:1 NLT) - I look up to the mountains—does my help come from there? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
(Proverbs 30:9 NLT) - For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”…
There may be times where we lose the point of what God has us doing because we get our focus on the wrong thing.
(John 5:39-40 NLT) - You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to Me! 40 Yet you refuse to come to Me to receive this life.
(John 5:41-44 NLT) - Your approval means nothing to Me, 42 because I know you don’t have God’s love within you. 43 For I have come to you in My Father’s name, and you have rejected Me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them. 44 No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God.
(Matthew 23:3-7, 23-24 NLT) - So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden. 5 “Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. 6 And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. 7 They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’ …
23 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. 24 Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
Communion: “The sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level.”
God made US to be WITH HIM!