Believers Missing the Mark

Since the fall, when Adam was removed from the presence of God and mankind was separated from God, God has been reaching out to man to draw him back into His presence, to give him life, eternal life. The dealings of God with man have been recorded by men in the scriptures (Bible).

God spoke in many ways through many people, through the prophets and in these last days, through Jesus Christ, sending His Son, God in the flesh, to reconcile us with Him. After Jesus was rejected, crucified by men, killed and resurrected He ascended to heaven and He sent us His Holy Spirit to speak to men, to bring men into the presence of God. He is reaching out to us but MAN IS MISSING THE MARK!

Instead of reaching out to God and experiencing God as real, man is rejecting God and going after the scriptures (Bible). When Jesus came, the very people who expected His coming, the coming of the Messiah, they were the ones to reject Him because they held on to the scriptures. They believed in the scriptures and they rejected God in the flesh. They had Him crucified. Today the very same thing is happening. God has sent us His Holy Spirit to guide us, to teach us, to bring us into relationship with Himself but men are holding on to the writings of those people who did experience the presence of God, those eye witnesses who saw Jesus, who wrote down what He said and did.

People are occupying themselves with (Bible) study, of the writings of those who did experience God, who did see Jesus, who did hear Him and who wrote about it. Instead of reaching out to Jesus and getting to know Him and through Him, getting to know God, they are busy with the scriptures, they are busy with religion, they are ignoring Jesus and they are ignoring the Holy Spirit that He sent to live in them, to guide them and to bring them into that relationship with God.

THEY ARE MISSING THE MARK and they will miss eternity, because Jesus, who came to redeem them will say to them:”Go away I never knew you.” Many of them were busy with the book (Bible), with religion, but they never got to know Jesus. THEY MISSED THE MARK! Have you met Jesus? Have you received His Spirit that He promised to those who seek Him? Do you HEAR His Spirit speaking to you, or are you MISSING THE MARK?

Jesus is ALIVE! God is SPIRIT and He has sent His Spirit to live in us. Have you found Jesus? Have you received the Spirit of God or are you MISSING THE MARK? Is Jesus real to you? Does He know you? Do you know HIM, or are you busy with other things, Bible study, church, religion? Are you MISSING THE MARK? Or do you KNOW JESUS?

May Jesus bless you.