The Main Thing Purpose and Practice

The Main Thing 

Purpose and Practice

The main thing is to love God

This purpose is to affect everything we practice in life

 The natural and the spiritual are not separated

When we make God the main thing

God is Spirit

But He tells us that whatever we do, do it as unto the Lord

The first spiritual assignment from God was for man to rule the earth

We are to make it our prayer that God’s Kingdom comes in the earth

We are not to be so heavenly minded we are not earthly good

God’s Word tells us what we call secular should be done as unto the Lord

Be sure your purpose and practice are carried out

With Love, Grace and Truth

And don’t neglect Justice and Love of God

 

Purpose and Practice

The main thing is the first thing

but it is not the only thing.

 The first thing is spiritual.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must

 worship in spirit and in truth.

 John 4:24

It can be difficult to understand how to keep

the main thing, which is spiritual, in a natural world.

Some of us think if we work at a church as

a volunteer or paid staff that that is spiritual…

But when we work out side of the church

in an office, factory, fields or retail that is secular.

God’s Word tells us what we call secular

should be done as unto the Lord.

We are also reminded that what we do will not only

give us natural reward, but reward from the Lord.

  Colossians 3:23; Ephesians 6:7

God does not separate the things we

do in the natural from the spiritual.

They are both important to Him.

When we separate the natural from the

spiritual we become guilty of being “so

heavenly minded we are no earthly good”.

When God is the main thing, all the

natural things we do are affected by the

influence of keeping God the main thing.

When the main thing is God and His Kingdom,

 it begins to shape the world around us.

God is Love and He is full of Grace and Truth.

Just these three attributes of God…

 Love, Grace and Truth change and

influence the environment around us.

When we demonstrate these qualities of who God is,

 we fulfill two of the basic commands God gives us.

The first command God gave Adam

and Eve was to “rule over the earth”.

 Jesus gives us the command to make it our pray that

His Kingdom come in earth as it is in Heaven.

Making God, who is Spirit, the main thing is not

waiting for supernatural miracles to change the natural.

The main thing is for us to rule the earth and when

we rule with God being the main thing we

open the doors for God to do supernatural things.

Check it out, the three Hebrews who did all they

could to live for God and when they were

thrown in the fiery furnace God did the supernatural.

 

Paul went out to the Gentiles and many

times along the way God did the supernatural.

 I am not sure the Old Testament saints or the New

Testament saints were looking for the supernatural like we do.

I think they were concerned with doing the main

thing and God supernaturally worked with them.

We can compartmentalize life like the

Pharisees who were good at the details

but lost their love for Justice and Love.

Keeping the main thing the main thing means keeping

“the purpose and the practice” in honor of God.

So whatever you do in word

or deed do it as unto the Lord.

 

Be sure your purpose and practice are

carried out with Love, Grace and Truth.

And don’t neglect Justice and Love of God.

Scripture Reading

Colossians 3:22-25 NIV

 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

Ephesians 6:5-8 NIV

 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

          Luke 11:42 NIV

42 "Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.