Stay Tuned In To God

Each of us has a choice to stay ‘Tuned In’ or to change the channel at any given moment in our lives. God wants it that way. He desires that our heart stay tuned with His. When that doesn’t happen in our lives it causes problems. God never changes or moves the channel. He WANTS us to be drawn to Him.

In our restlessness in this life we do the changing and moving. It has happened since mankind began. God is patient and loving and calls us back to Himself over and over and over again in the hope that we will come to the place that we DESIRE Him more than anything else we are ‘tuning’ in to!

Jeremiah 31:3 says “I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with lovingkindness.”

The LOVE is what draws us to God and the LOVE is where we need to stay ‘Tuned In’.

Are we TUNED IN today? Are we focusing on God and letting Him lead our life?

I think about this as in a radio that we might have. Some days we get up and we feel happy and carefree and we might move the radio station to the Christian station. Some days we get up and we are grumpy and grouchy and we change the radio from the Christian station to hard rock because we don’t care if we hear the words or not; the music drowns our thoughts. On other days we get up and we are neither happy and carefree or grumpy and grouchy – we just don’t care and we change the station again.

We do the same thing in our Believer’s walk. We let our moods and emotions change our belief. The Bible says that we should be ‘steadfast and strong’ in our faith and not be moved. But we move anyway.

I think that this matters. It affects our belief when we are switching stations in our lives over and over again. What happens is that we are not solid in what we DO believe and eventually we fade away from the Lord because we don’t know where or how to stand when problems come.

HOW can we stop this from happening? The Word of God is the answer! Here are some ways that the Word should be saturating our lives!

v Use the POWER that comes through the Word of God! In Psalm 119:97-98 the Bible says: “Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.” God INTENDS for us to study His Word. That is why He gave it to us. He WANTS us to use it to defeat the devil in this life. All of the keys for doing that are found in the Word. We MUST stay tuned in to God’s Word to defeat this life! There is POWER found there to make it through the day when we don’t feel like it. There is POWER there to defeat the thoughts that cause us to be weak. God loved us so much that He provided His Word for us to help us on our journey to Him!

v Be ‘BUILT UP’ through the Word of God! Acts 20:32 says: “Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” God wants us to be BUILT UP in His Word so that our inheritance is strong in Him. This would be the inheritance of eternity through Salvation. THIS is the reason we should be so excited about learning more and more about God’s Word! We are learning what we need to learn for the eternal. Once we get saved and turn toward the Lord we begin to learn what His Word says and how to use it! What we carry away after death will be what we learn about God and how we use it! It is vital that we understand what our inheritance is!

v God’s Word will make you a WONDER to the darkness of this world! John 1:4-5 says “In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” Those who place their total trust and love in the Lord and obey His Word are a WONDER to those who don’t understand or walk in darkness. If EVER there was a reason to BELIEVE and LIVE OUT the Word of God – this is it! We MUST reach those in darkness. Those who don’t know don’t understand the Power and it is our responsibility to live it out for them so they will have strength and desire the Lord also! Not only this but we will marvel at the Lord for what he does in our lives! It will make us WONDER at how WONDERFUL He is!

v God’s Word will transform us into the likeness of Christ! We are who or what we behold in this life. Are we beholding Christ and desiring to be more like Him? 2 Corinthians 3:18 says: “And we, who with unveiled faces, all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” When we begin to spend our time and thought in the Word of God; we are literally transformed to what God intends for us to be – which is MORE LIKE CHRIST! No man can do this. It comes ONLY through the POWER of God! Once we are transformed we do not desire to go back in this life and live empty, defeated ways that lead nowhere! Transformation takes time and is a work in progress; but the Lord promises us that He will never leave us during this transformation process. Wouldn’t you rather be in His Presence than not?

Let’s work together to strengthen our focus on God’s Word and His Promises in this life so that we can defeat Satan and his ways! Let’s believe Him and be a WONDER to the lost; a LIGHT in the darkness for others! Be TRANSFORMED today and changed forever by the POWER of God!

Stay tuned in today to God and never change the channel! His Promises are true and His Way is ultimately the ONLY way. Obey Him and ask forgiveness for sin; so that your fellowship is sweet with the LORD! Nothing in this life compares to that!