1 Samuel 3:7 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c(Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here was an irony. Samuel had been ministering to the Lord for years, and was busy for the Lord, but \u201cdid not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.\u201d<\/em> Everyone who came to Samuel must have thought that he knew the Lord because he was serving the Lord. Everyone who saw Samuel must have felt that he had the word of God because, after all, he was a priest of God. But alas, neither of these were true. Samuel neither knew the Lord, nor did he know the Word of the Lord. He was simply going through the routine of ministry work, without any vital connection with the God of the work. And so it is with many of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are busy for God, but we do not have that \u201cdeep connect\u201d with God. We are busy doing stuff for God, but we have not had an experience of God. The irony of life is that it is possible to serve God and not know God. Many people are actively serving God, but they have no \u201cspiritual connection\u201d with God. This is not God\u2019s will for us in Christ. Jesus calls us to come to the place of knowing Him first before serving Him. It is futile to spend all your life working for God, and He does not know you or recognize your labors. Let\u2019s stop all the vigorous ministry activities, and good charity works. Let\u2019s stop a while and ponder a bit. How deep is our heart connection with God? Has God been speaking to us directly of late? Are we sure we know Him well enough to be serving Him? If not, we need to stop all things and lay the right foundations with God, lest we would have spent all our lives running in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLord, I stop again to re-evaluate where I stand with You. Deliver me from being busy for You and yet not growing in You. In Jesus\u2019 name. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Samuel 3:7 (NKJV) \u201c(Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.)\u201d Here was an irony. Samuel had been ministering to the Lord for years, and was busy for the Lord, but \u201cdid not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-1st-samuel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-Samuel-Cover.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}