Saturday... They go together.

David writes in Psalm 24:5 (NLT), "They will receive he Lord's blessing and have a right relationship with God their savior." Blessing and relationship go together.

You know that, don't you? Blessing and relationship go together. And when you don't cultivate, you ignore, you don't spend time with, the blessings in a relationship slowly slip away.

Amos 6:1 (NIV) says, "Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria." It is so easy to get so secure and complacent to the point that we lose the benefits that go along with our relationships. That is what happened with Israel. Because they slowly turned away from their relationship with God, He turned away from them and Amos writes in verse 14, "For the Lord God Almighty declares, 'I will stir up a nation against you, Israel.' "

Now it is so easy to became secure and complacent in our relationship with God and there is so much to lose.

Psalm 24:3-6 (NLT) says, "Who may climb the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? Only those whose hearts are pure, who do not worship idols and never tell lies. They will receive the Lord's blessing and have a right relationship with God their savior. Such people may seek and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob."

So how is your relationship with God? Are you cultivating it? Are you conversing with Him on a regular basis by reading His Word and meditating and doing what it says and are you connecting with Him through prayer, are you praising and worshiping Him? Or are you feeling secure and complacent? Right relationships do not just happen, do they? But there are so many blessings that come with a right relationship, aren't there? They go together! Yes, yes! #toddaysbeginning

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