Psalms 71:15-16 NLT
“I will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power, though I am not skilled with words. I will praise your mighty deeds, O Sovereign Lord. I will tell everyone that you alone are just.”
What have you been talking about lately? Is it Jesus? Have you been proclaiming God's righteousness, saving power, and mighty deeds?
This is not a guilt trip, but an opportunity for us to examine our own heart. We know that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Lk. 6:45 ESV). If I'm full of the Holy Spirit, I will naturally be speaking of spiritual things. If I am in awe of God's majesty and goodness, then I will naturally be telling other people about how amazing my God is.
Now don't misunderstand. If my heart isn't full of God, it doesn't mean that I'm backslidden or that I don't love God. In fact, I may even be doing a lot of godly things. But what I may be missing is a deeper level of intimacy with God. I may be low on my tasting and seeing the goodness of God. And this may just be the result of not spending that special one-on-one time with Jesus.
But what about those of us who pray and read the Bible regularly? I pose this question to you, faithful Christian: what if God wants to take you deeper? What if God wants you to seek Him more earnestly? To worship Him more abandonly? To just—sit with Him more patiently? We deprive ourselves of the wonderful experience of His majesty when we don't prioritize and maximize our time with God.
Don't see this as a guilt trip. See it as an invitation! Your Father loves you and wants to spend time with you. Press into Him more! Hunger and thirst for Him more! He wants to blow you away so that you can't help but proclaim His glory to the nations! Because once we've tasted and seen God's goodness afresh, what greater thing is there to talk about?
All praise, all glory, all honor be to God forever in the Everlasting Name of Jesus of Nazareth! Amen and Amen!
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