Only God Is Worthy

Last night while I was out I heard a song on the intercom system at the place where I was eating, and part of the chorus of the song really stood out to me. It went like this: “She is love, and she’s all I need.” Awwww, how romantic and sweet. And stupid. Really, really stupid! You want a failed relationship or marriage with someone? Just enter in on those terms and you’re certain to fail, and fail hard. You can also be born again and do exactly that. All it takes is not keeping Jesus as the true love of your life and the apple of your eye. Everyone is looking for someone who can be everything to them, and it just ain’t gonna happen my friend. Not ever. That’s really like a can of gasoline looking for fire to be it’s friend. There’s simply no way under the sun that you will ever get that fairy tale to come true. Jeremiah gave us the condition of man’s inner being in a nutshell. Well, actually God said it, and Jeremiah recorded it: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). The answer is that God is the ONLY one who knows the hearts of men, and he knows that they are ALL in the condition described above unless and until they are sanctified by his Spirit (Acts 15:8,9; I Cor. 6:11; Rom. 15:16). Just because someone’s heart has been sanctified once, doesn’t necessarily mean that they are going to keep it that way either. The scriptures make it clear that being sanctified, which is to say made pure from sin, is something that must be maintained till the end of one’s life in order to obtain salvation (Mat. 24:12,13; Rom. 11:22; Philip. 2:12; I Jn. 3:2,3; Prov. 4:23). The scriptures also are clear that it takes some doing to keep that task accomplished in our lives (I Cor. 15:58; Heb. 2:1; Heb. 4:1,11).

So unless someone is actually doing these things as their basic lifestyle, they are NOT keeping Jesus first in their lives. If they are not doing that then they are not presently sanctified in their spirit, and they fall back to the condition stated by Jer. 17:9, as quoted above. Even if someone IS pure, and truly remaining that way, which is rare; they still are not able to be everything that someone is looking for. Only Jesus satisfies that requirement, and the living water that he died and rose to give us to drink for our souls (Jn. 4:13,14; Jn. 7:38,39; I Cor. 12:13; Rev. 22:17). Nobody “is love,” as the silly song I heard was saying. Nobody except for God of course, because the Bible clearly says that “God is love” (I Jn. 4:8). Now if you want a fighting chance for a successful relationship and marriage, then be sure to follow Jesus’ all time, all powerful, and all proven instructions: “(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Mat. 6:32,33). Now finding a mate is not included in the “all these things” that Jesus was speaking of here, but rather food and raiment. Nonetheless we can certainly include it to be covered under these divine guidelines. I once knew a young woman in Christ who wanted a mate, and when she would pray about it the Spirit would bring the above scripture passage to mind. Well, in the end she decided not to keep those instructions and wait on God for the right person, and it eventually brought her to utter shipwreck concerning her life in the Lord. That was one testimony that I personally heard from that individual, but I’ve seen the exact same thing happen to young people over and over again since I’ve been in Christ.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting a mate, but there is everything wrong with not keeping Jesus truly first on your priority list. It is very easy to say you’re making him your top priority, but again, keeping your heart pure from sin is the only proof of that. The only way anyone has a real chance for a ‘true love’ with someone is if they are both presently purified by the holy Ghost, and they both remain that way. Even then there’s no promise of it being particularly easy. That is why the apostle Paul gave due warning about the whole matter in 1 Corinthians chapter 7. In any event my friend, don’t be deluded that someone is going to fill the lacking in your heart, because they will not. If there is lacking in your heart, you will take it with you into any relationship or marriage that you enter into. Not only so, but if you are lacking, you are going to end up with someone else who also is lacking, and all of a sudden you’ve got really big trouble waiting for you. Someone is going to find out that someone else is not getting it done for them and they move on to someone who they believe WILL get it done for them. They will be disappointed there as well, and someone will be left stranded, deciding whether they want to try to play the same losing game again. The only measuring stick on whether yourself or someone else is qualified to succeed in that arena is if sin is out of yours and their lives. That is the definition of pureness, or holiness, or sanctification; whatever you want to call it. If you don’t have power over sin, which Jesus gives to those who truly believe on him, then you certainly aren’t going to have power over someone else’s sins either. That’s where the gasoline can meets the fire, and finds out the hard way that they weren’t ‘meant for each other’ after all. So when it’s all said and done, only Jesus is worthy of it being said of him, “He is love, and he’s all I need.” If two people know and are experiencing that reality, they just might be blessed enough to make it work. Amen.