There has been an emergence of 3-D (three dimensional) movies being released, and God has already revealed a 3-D promise to His peoples. The term 3-D means: having depth, width, and height. In Deuteronomy 26:17-19 3 declarations are made over the people of Israel/you. These declarations discuss the depth, height, width of a relationship with God/Christ. After reading these scriptures, I begin to re-assess my relationship with Christ and I became strengthen in those areas I was weak. I pray the same happens with you.
In Deuteronomy 26:17, the first declaration is made. The first declaration is made by us, and deals with the depth or basis of our relationship. At times we believe God is at our beckon and call, that we can live our life as we please and God is still to stay true to His word. Verse 17 exposes 4 declarations we made to God, and at times we have to be reminded of what we declared. The first is that we declared to the LORD that, “you are my God”, that means NOTHING should have your worship, attention, or praise. If God is your God, and you recognize that everything moves and lives in Him, then I believe He deserves us to treat Him better and with more reverence. We also, have to acknowledge the one He sent to save our souls, JESUS CHRIST. Jesus Christ is the head of our lives, and we know/believe that God sent him so that we may be saved and have everlasting life. For that we declared that you are God over/in our lives. The second declaration made is, “we will walk in His ways”. In 2010, with so much distraction in the world and openness to secularity, I know it becomes difficult to fulfill the second declaration. Walking in His ways, only increase our depth in Him. To walk in God ways keeps us more grounded/humble to others around, so that non-Christian disciples can see Christ working through us more clearly. The third declaration is, “to keep all His decrees, commands and laws”. God/Christ has outlined throughout the bible various decrees that we should withstand from should do. Keeping God/Christ decrees allows us to be partaker/witnesses to all the miraculous signs and wonders that God/Christ do through our lives. The fourth declaration is,” to obey them”, as the last thing we declared to God is that we will obey them. God mentions that obedience is better than sacrifice; we know that to be true, when we trust God’s Word over our lives. Similarly we should have the same trust/faith in Obeying His decrees, commands, and laws. When you look up the word depth, the words complex, gravity, deep, downward from an upper surface are mentioned. We cannot have a depth relationship with God/ Christ, if we are not willing to keep our word. If we can’t keep our word to God/Christ our relationship with them will never have depth. Jesus was speaking to the disciples and said, "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." I think this sums up the reason for us to have a relationship with God/Christ with depth, after all we declared it.
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