Unbelievers Just Go Through the Motions (TMF:973)

Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Peace to Live By: Unbelievers Just Go Through the Motions (TMF:973) - Daniel Litton
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       The unbeliever just goes through the motions in life without anything truly deep, truly profound in life. He or she lives for him or herself only, just seeking the next pleasure or event that will make him or her happy. Even what the unbeliever does, his work with his hands, benefits the believer. But what the believer has internally, in God, does not benefit the unbeliever. What he say externally may benefit him, but nothing he has internally does. Paul would backup Solomon in what he said, when he said, “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17, ESV). We have the greater things of life given to us by God. Even though we cannot see God with our own eyes in our lives, for we do not see him physically standing next to us, we still believe in him. And this belief, Peter tells us, causes us to abound in joy, to rejoice, with a joy that is indescribable, something that we really cannot put our finger on or even explain to others (see 1 Peter 1:8, 9). Sometimes it is hard to express. We say we just know what we know.