Be With God or Completely Useless

There was an event during the days of Jeremiah where God shows a great illustration of how he desire to bound Israel to Him forever, to be His chosen people (read Jeremiah 13:1-11). But in all the efforts of God to restore them, they keep on failing and breaking the heart of God. He was then making a decision to punish them and like the linen belt will be completely useless. God shows us that the linen belt was initially a new one. It is tied to Jeremiah's waist and it looks great, he is happy to wear it and show to everyone how good the belt is. Likewise as the chosen people of God and though we are not new, God declared us as His new creation when reconciled with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. It says in 2 Cor 5:17, "So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away - look, what is new has come!"

When Christ holds us or wears us in Him, His favors is also with us. He is too happy to showcase us as to world and how blessed we are knowing we are side by side with our God. What a great joy and privilege it is, indeed! But He also warns us that if we were kept away from Him, we are going to be useless. But that's the good thing about it; we are only going to be useless, if and only if, we are placed under the soil for some time and were ruined. This is a kind of warning that we do not want to happen in us, I believe.

God illustrated that getting ourselves away from Him; we'll end up being useless. We don't set our time, talents and treasure to Him anymore. We are too busy in our lives and keep on forgetting a time for prayers, devotions, reading the Bible, and fellowship. We are no longer interested to join the church services, meeting and gatherings and offer some help and assistance through ministries, evangelism and mission. We are so contained to the basic personal needs and gratifying wants, allotting nothing for the Lord; giving offerings and tithes now in compulsion.

All of these actions are becoming regular and seems to be normal, are also the soils that will bury us deep into ruin which later make us to be totally useless. Again in Jeremiah 13:9-10, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless!"

God bless everyone!