Dulled Senses and People Worship

For the past few months I have been really delving into the reality that what I allow myself to see and hear can either enlighten my Spirit or dull my senses. This by no means a new concept, but a new revelation my spirit is grasping. God is beginning to open my eyes to the reality that we live in such a busy high entertainment society we do not realize our eyes and ears are closed off from His voice. We as a nation spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and listening to music. I believe that if we begin to cut out most of those distractions from our daily lives, focus on hearing God's voice our problems will be solved. I fasted movies and Internet for forty days sometime last year, and in the extra time that was made I spent time with God. He began to open up revelation to me that later changed my life. My spirit was  tune with what God was saying, because I cut out all the other noise that was distracting me from Him. My spiritual eyes began to be opened to the knowledge of God. Ephesians 1:18 talks about the eyes of our understanding being enlightened. Once we get rid of all the traffic that we allow to come in front of our vision our focus becomes clear. We are then able to see what He wants us to do, and we are then to be able to gain revelation of His glory. In Matthew 18:9 is says that if your eyes distracts you from God then to pluck it out, for it is better to have one eye than to be distracted from Him. Saints we need to realize that we allow our senses to be dulled by on infidelity after another on the television and movie screens. Each time we allow these unlawful things to enter our spirit it becomes common, and we drift further from the sensitivity to His voice.We need to begin to pray Psalms 119:18 where it says open my eyes so that I can gaze upon Your wondrous things. We need the wonder and beauty of God restored in us. Corey Russell says, "If you think the newest Hollywood flick is more exciting then Genesis 1:1 then you need revival". I completely agree with that statement. In the beginning God is what it says. Well if God was there in the beginning then where did He start. That is just the wonder and beauty of Him.

The next subject that I have been stuck on is the longing to worship people instead of God. People today are so enamored by what celebrities are doing they lose focus on God. How is the death of a celebrity more important than the death of Christ? We need to stop worshiping these celebrities as idols. It is like when they made the golden calf to worship in the wilderness when Moses when to seek God. The reason we are stuck in the wilderness is, because of our divided worship. These celebrities are just mere men and women that did not die for anything worth celebrating compared to Christ. Christ’s death was the most important death, and is just as relevant today as it was when He died 2000 years ago. We live through these people like we should be living through Christ. He is the ultimate celebrity, but we waste so much of our time finding out what is going on with our favorite celebrity. We are more concerned about their lives than the life of Christ, and the knowledge of Him. It is not to say that we should not mourn for people that die, but never put them before the death of Christ. Their death means nothing compared to the death of Him. He came and shed His blood so that we can abound in grace and mercy. He longs for us to search Him out the same way we do these celebrities. Some people know so much about a certain celebrity they feel they know them on a personal level without even meeting them. We need to know so much about God that we know Him on a personal level. One difference between dead celebrities and Christ is that we can still have a personal relationship with Christ after He died. We were made in His image not Him in our image. Let us burn with a fervent passion for Him. Only desiring to inquire who God is, and what His characteristics are. Let us search out His personality, and the reality of the Bridegroom. Let us be consumed by Him so much that we have dove’s eyes (No peripheral vision) for Him. This is not just a problem out of the church, but inside of it as well. Too many people worship a man or woman in a pulpit instead of God. We need the friend of the Bridegroom reality to come forth. Saints remember that we are made from but mere dust, and what makes us so beautiful is the breath that He breathed into us.

I will end with this...
Psalms 145:3

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. 

God is so beautiful and can never receive enough of my praise.There is no limit to His greatness and beauty.