We are to live in the gaze of the God in His majestic presence. God is indeed everywhere; that is, only God can be omnipresent. There is no place where we can escape His presence. He is in heaven; that is, He is there in personified mercy through His Son. He is in hell; that is, He is there in the absence of His mercy and the presence of His tormentive wrath.
We ought to be aware of the presence of God. To be aware of His presence is to be aware of His sovereignty. God is God if indeed He is sovereign. If God is sovereign, it is indeed God. Paul was confronted with the radiant presence of Christ in His resurrected state. Saul who later become Paul asked who the Lord was; that is, He was not exactly sure who he was speaking with but Paul knew that He had to be sovereign. The Bible teaches that the biblical God of the OT and NT is sovereign.
We ought not to submit to the sovereignty because of fear of punishment. Attrition has no spiritual value in the Christian life. There is no higher pursuit than to honor and glorify and magnify God alone. We ought to be living sacrifices to God and set apart for His plan. We ought to live in practical righteousness, holiness, uprightness, godliness and contrite obedience.
If we live a life set apart for the presence of God, we live a life of spiritual integrity. We ought to have a spirit of worship and thanksgiving. We will not please God if we fail to worship Him in spirit and in truth. We ought not to be inconsistent. We ought to live life in light of repentance and faith. We ought not to be in disharmony. We ought to walk worthy of the gospel because we have received Christ in our hearts. We ought not to live life in confusion; that is, we ought to know that we belong to Christ. We ought not to live life in conflict with God; that is, we ought to obey His spiritual commandments. We ought not to live a life of contradiction; that is, we should not engage in repeated acts of gross corruption and neglect. We ought not to live a life of chaos; that is, the mark of chaos is no faithful repentance and a practice of doubts.
We should never divide life between the spiritual and the non-spiritual. We should never divide life between the religious and the non-religious. We should apply what the Bible says to our lives. We should not be someone who engages in a non-religious attitude at work and a spiritual attitude at church. We should always be spiritual and religious. Sometimes it is not good to be religious. It depends on how you use the term. I would say religiosity can weaken assurance of salvation. It just depends on the context of how someone uses the term. We ought to be like David who obeyed God's law when he was a shepherd and when he was a king. We ought to be like Jesus who was just as devote when He began His three-year ministry than when He was a thirty-year old carpenter.
We ought to live our life open before God. He reads our lives as a open book to Him. We ought to do all we can do for our Lord. A Christian should live by principle and humility before God. We ought to have the divine and written Word of God immerse and saturate and control our lives.
This blog web site is for the in-depth, sound and basic exegetical study of the Bible in Reformed apologetics; that is, I shall expound upon the inerrant and infallible Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. There shall be biblical studies in world religions and non-Christian cults. I also quote and research reformed writers and I am happy to study from them. May the Lord bless everyone who reads this blog with spiritual riches in Christ which is His imputed merit by faith alone.
