Are you sounding your own alarm?

Tuesday Inspiration

Topic: Are you sounding your own alarm?
Matt 6

Are we keeping track of what we have done for God? Are we sounding our own trumpet? We have to be mindful of our intent. It is very easy to begin focusing on Jesus and our flesh take over and we begin to glorify the works of our hands.

God created the heaven and the earth and everything in the earth. Jesus crowned us with glory and honor. Jesus allowed us to have dominion over everything he created (Psa 8:4-6). If Jesus created everything and gave man glory, honor and dominion, we are subject to the authority of Jesus. If God decides to take away our glory, honor and dominion we will not have a trumpet to sound. Our trumpet is a deceiver. When we blow our horn or glorify ourselves and seek credit for things God had done through us we are receiving our reward on earth from man. Our focus must be on Jesus and only Jesus. We need God’s reward as his is everlasting. Man’s reward is temporal. As the world says “what have you done for me lately”, we can never give enough to man, the world will always want more until there is nothing left for us to give.

Remember God crowned us with glory, honor, and dominion (Psa 8:3-9). The only one we should seek approval from is from the one who placed the crown and the honor. Jesus does not give us more than we can handle. Jesus will carry the burdens for us when we trust him (Matt 11:30). Man will use and abuse us until there is nothing left. We have to realize when we seek glory from man we are out of order, out of alignment. Each of us has been crowned with glory, honor, and dominion. When we begin serving man and seeking his approval we have made him/her our god and we can only receive reward from them. We have removed ourselves from the order Jesus established. We cannot serve two masters (Matt6:24). We cannot make people our god then ask Jesus to work it out. We have to decide who we are going to serve.

Some of us may not understand what it means to have the crown of glory and honor. A crown means to encircle something. When Jesus encircles us, he is first protecting us, second guarding against attack. When he crowns us, he is completely surrounding us on all sides. In that circle he gives us glory, which is his good sense, his splendor, his abundance, his riches, his dignity, and his reputation. He also gives us honor, which is a symbol or a sign of his magnificence, his splendor, his beauty, and his excellence.  After Jesus adorns us with glory and honor he gives us dominion. When we have dominion we have power, we have authority over everything God created (Psa 8:6-8). We have to remember our authority comes from above. If we are living below the glory, honor, and dominion God has given us, it is because we have stepped outside of his crown. We have removed ourselves from his circle of protection and have decided to serve another master. God is a jealous God (Ex 20:5). He does not want to share ownership. Jesus is the only one who paid the price for us and he is the only one we should serve. Imagine paying full price for a car or a house and the previous owner wants to continue to live in it or drive it. Imagine the previous owner wanting to have authority over what you purchased after you have paid full price, taxes, fees, and interest.

When we demonstrate great works in the earth and we begin to glorify the works our hands remember who gave us our gifts, remember whose authority we are under. If Jesus completely removes his glory from us we will be wanderers just as the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years (Num 32:13). We will travel in circles never moving to the next level. We will never receive what God has for our lives. Without God’s glory he will turn us over to a reprobate mind and we will become filled with unrighteousness (Rom1:28-30).

²⁸And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.

Accept your crown, walk in the authority of Jesus Christ. Do not blow your own horn as we know all our gifts and talents come from above. We don’t want God’s gifts without his glory and honor. We don’t want to be a gifted wanderer. We don’t want to reside outside of God’s protection. We don’t want to live beneath the authority Jesus has given.

Let’s lay up our treasures in heaven. Let’s stay in alignment. Let’s blow Jesus’ horn.

God bless you and yours!

 

Pray

Matthew 6:8-13

King James Version (KJV)

⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
⁹ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.
¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

 

 

 
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