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What God Wants You To Do (1) - Go Ye!

"One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,to gaze on the beauty of the Lordand to seek him in his temple."- Psalm 27:4 NIV
No doubt, everyone who has had some real encounter or experience with God will have the same desire and request David had, and will want to do whatever it takes to fulfill that desire.
Unfortunately, God is not going to grant that request because He has a different plan for us. There's absolutely no value in God having us dwell in His House all the days of our lives gazing at His beauty, neither is there any value in us building "three booths" so we don't have to leave the "mountain of transfiguration."

What God really wants is for us to get out there, into the world. He needs ambassadors out there to represent Him and help show the world what the Kingdom of Heaven is like. He needs witnesses out there to tell of His goodness, power and justice. He needs wise people to deal with the wolves out there, many of whom are masquerading as sheep. He needs us out there!
Everything the Lord has done in our lives - from salvation to giving the Holy Spirit - is to prepare us for a life out there, not a life sitting and gazing at His beauty. The Holy Spirit is given so we can get out of the "Upper Room" into the real world and do real stuffs, great stuffs.
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
- Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Send us out in the power of your Spirit
to live and work to your praise and glory.
Amen.
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