Who are you relying on?

 Who are you relying on?

The Psalmist writes,

"I lift up my eyes to the hills— 

where does my help come from? 

My help comes from the LORD,

 the Maker of heaven and earth.”

                                                   Psalm 121:1,2.

If you consider yourself a Christian. A follower of Christ Jesus, where does your help come from? Are you sure you are truly relying on the Lord, The Maker of heaven and earth?

In Psalm twenty we are reminded,

"Some trust in chariots

 and some in horses, 

but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." 

                                                                            Psalm 20:7.

It is so easy for a person to slip from relying on The Lord to relying of our material possessions. Quite often we do it without even realizing it.

So I ask you again, if you truly believe you are a Christian, a follower of Christ Jesus; Are you relying on God or something else?

Please think about it.

Church Hoppers

Church Hoppers
The apostle Paul writes,
“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” 2Timothy 4:3,4.
I live in a community of around 120,000 people. In our city there is it seems a large church on every second corner and dozens upon dozens of small churches sprinkled liberally in every neighbourhood.
Having so many churches sounds in many ways a good thing. It allows individuals to find a church that best fits the way they like to worship and be taught
On the down side many of those churches big and small are deliberately or out of ignorance of the scriptures not presenting the word of God correctly.
  The apostle Paul writing to Timothy said,
“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.” 2Timothy 2:15.
That being said we have many people within the church community that we refer to as Church hoppers. People who move from church to church.
Some are truly looking for a church that is truly presenting the gospel message truthfully and in the spirit God mean it to be presented.
Sadly others are bouncing from church to church to get their “feel good fix” of the day. Looking for a church that makes them feel good all over. As one person put it, “gives them a warm fuzzy feeling.
 Other people are outrightly rejecting Biblical truths looking for a church who tells them what they want to hear.

Saint Augustine said of such people,

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, 

and reject what you don’t like, 

it is not the gospel you believe, 

but yourself.” 

                             St Augustine

My question to anyone reading this who claims to be a Christian, is why do you go to church?
The reason I ask the question is a simple one. Your place in eternity may rest upon your answer.
Please think about it.