You still believe. You still pray. You still show up.
But somewhere between the beginning and now, God became
manageable to you — approachable on your terms, available
when you need Him. And it doesn't feel wrong. That's
the danger. Comfort doesn't announce itself as contempt.
It just quietly replaces your reverence until one day
you realize you've been treating the King of the universe
like a helpdesk.
The prophet Isaiah was a man of God. Not a casual
believer — a prophet. And when he actually saw the Lord,
high and lifted up, the train of His robe filling the
temple, the seraphim burning and crying holy without
ceasing, his first words were not worship. They were
collapse. Woe is me, for I am undone. The Hebrew word
means torn apart — destroyed at the seams. This is what
happens when a man stops imagining God and actually
encounters Him. You don't get comfortable. You get
obliterated. And then — only then — you get sent.
The writer of Hebrews says it plainly to New Testament
believers: let us serve God acceptably with reverence
and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire.
This is not Old Testament severity. This is the
correct posture for anyone who has been given access
to the throne by the blood of the Lamb. Boldness is
about access. Reverence is about posture. God gave
you both. Don't spend one and abandon the other.
Here is what I want you to carry today: the fire
didn't go out. You just stopped standing close enough
to feel it. And when you draw near — not casually,
not as a transaction, but with the weight of who
He actually is — He will draw near to you. His fire
doesn't consume you. It consumes everything in you
that has been consuming you.
Come correctly. That is your commission today.
Today's full teaching: You've Been Treating God Too
Casually — And It's Costing You → [Watch It On YouTube]