Loyalty to Lordship

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"By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did" (Heb 11:4)

True faith on God accepts Him as the Lord or Governor. He is the only one worthy to be worshipped (Heb 11:4) and obeyed (Heb 11:7). The supremacy and preeminence in our lives must be given only to Him. Faith in the Lordship of God leads us to a fourfold action—

* When we believe God is our Lord, we will honour Him with our best. All that we possess is only what He has given us. Cain brought to God the "fruits of the soil" whereas Abel brought "the firstlings of the flock and of the fat thereof" (Gen 4:3,4). Look at the difference in their giving. A man of God said, "Not how much we give but how much we take from God's gifts is what matters." We are only stewards and not owners of God's gifts —the talents, time and treasure. God is worthy of our best.
  
* This kind of faith acknowledges the unworthiness of man before the great Lord and leads him to stand only on the merit of Christ's Blood. Faith is the confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the Blood of Jesus (Heb 10:19,20). Otherwise man is nothing but "dust of the ground." David exclaimed before God, "What is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that You care for him?" (Psa 8:3). Let this exclamation be ours too! If we believe that God is our Lord, accepting our nothingness we will joyfully sing, He is my everything!

* Faith accepts the unquestionable supremacy of God's wisdom. Human knowledge is nothing before God's wisdom (1 Cor 1:25). He is Lord! Who can contend with Him? Could God's plan of testing Abraham, ordering him to sacrifice his only begotten son, be questioned? (Heb 11:17). When God is Lord, there's no place for such questions from our chicken brain! Has not God said, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so My thoughts are higher than yours" (Isa 55:8,9)? Even when we don't understand what He says or demands, we simply accept it because He is Lord.

* If God is Lord, we would worship the Blesser rather than the blessing. Perhaps Abraham and Sarah were preoccupied with the child of their old age. God asked back what He gave. Our blessings must be poured out before the Lord. Our crowns must be thrown at His feet. We must of course rejoice over God's blessings but beware of idolizing them. What a testimony it was when David said, "Whom have I in Heaven but You? And there is none upon earth whom I desire besides You!" (Psa 73:25).


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