God is far away from you when you are far away from Him. God is faithful and just, if you are truthful and Just.
He is a faithful God, He never fails, when you heed to the voice of God, He will show up for you.
God has all moments in His hands. God is not time bound, God is eternal now. He doesn’t forget anyone, that He doesn’t answer so many questions doesn’t mean He has forgotten anyone. Most questions will not be answered by God now and most questions won’t be answered at all. If you lost anything because of Jesus, He will give you back in hundred folds.
As a believer, you need to bring all your life as a living sacrifice, and if you don’t bring all of your life as a living sacrifice, God will not be involved in your life. You must give all to take all, when you get to heaven, you have taken all. If you are not living well as a believer, you will not be a clean tool in the hands of a clean God. The price of going to heaven is to pay the price that can make you enter into the kingdom of God, and make sure you don’t lose your focus in Christ.
Jesus has made every believer a priest. And before you can be qualified to go into God’s presence in the Old Testament, the priest must kill a bullock everyday to to first cleanse the altar. The priest will have to do that for seven days, the priest has to make sacrifice for himself first before he can atone for his people.
The standard of God is not anyhow, the fact that Jesus loves us does not mean we should perpetually live in dirt. The killing of the bullock is for the priest’s sin offering, but when Jesus came, He offered the sacrifice once and for all, He completed it with nothing missing, nothing broken. That you are singing doesn’t mean you are offering sacrifice, you offer sacrifice by presenting your body as a living sacrifice. You can never remove sacrifice from service.
The truth still remains that, you won’t be seen in the front when sin comes. When you are holy, you will be constant and stable, there are no instability in holiness. You can’t follow God on your own terms, you follow Him on His own terms.
Following God has to cost you something. If you want to follow God, you must be ready to ask and listen to Him because God always demands. Prayer is expensive, giving to God is expensive, holy living is paramount in following God. You will give account of your lifestyle before God.
Nothing is more important than you submitting to God. You won’t be intimate with God unless you move closer to Him. It is only God that doesn’t die, you must not miss heaven as a believer. Judgement starts from your intentions. Jesus gave His life as a living sacrifice, so we as believers have to give our own life back to Him.
Bible references;
Edo 29:36, Heb 13:15, Rom 12:1, Phi 4:18.