Mozart's Sister

 

I watched a movie on Mozart's sister the other night.  She was apparently as talented, if not more so, than Mozart but alas, she was a girl.  Her dad was promoting his son...not his daughter.   She faded into oblivion ... most have never heard of her. 

 

She was Catholic, as was her dear friend who eventually became a nun.  Both obviously believed in God...believed in Jesus.  But as I thought about her faith, it didn't seem to carry over to her  life.  It was a valued element but it was separate.

 

The same seems true today.

 

Kind of like you go to Best Buy and purchase a phone and to Kroger for milk and to church to pray and then you go home.  Best Buy, Kroger, church  are all separate entities...for specific purposes but they do not impact your life, your decisions, your conduct.  They are things you do, places you go.

 

Why is it more than a destination for some people?  What makes it life changing and life encompassing? 

 

I even asked a couple of people but their answers sounded hollow.  Then one morning,  I was reading and came upon the answer.  This why reading a daily Bible is so amazing...it answers your questions!

 

1 Kings 14:8  

 

"You have not been like My servant, David who

            obeyed my commands and

            followed Me with all his heart and

            always did whatever I wanted him to do."

 

There was  a big difference in a David who believed in God and went to temple and knelt to pray....and a David who obeyed His commands, followed Him with all his heart and always did whatever He wanted Him to. 

 

David not only read His word to know what the commands were, he did what they said...he obeyed them.  Often I read and know...then walk the other way.  David obeyed ... not perfectly, but his intent was not to just read, but to obey.

 

But  he also followed God on a heart level...his spirit was fully engaged.  He did not go through the motions on the outside....go to church, sing , give money, pray... His heart was in it.  He expected to meet God when he did these things.

 

There was a connection between David and God on a heart level.  Big difference in an intellectual level (which he did as he read and obeyed)  and a heart level.  Sometimes you obey not because your heart is in it but because you know His word is true.  Yet the heart follows if there is a heart connection between your heart and the heart of God.

 

And, it says, he "always did whatever God wanted him to do," means he was listening.  Listening not only to what he was reading, but to God speaking to his heart. This is relationship. This is relationship because when he really screwed up big time, and God sent Nathan to point his long bony finger at David and rebuke him, he knew it was the voice of God.  His heart had heard that voice many times.

 

We are to be like Psalm 123...

 

"I lift up my eyes to You...to You who sit enthroned in heaven.

As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

As a slave girl watches her mistress for the slightest signal..."  expectantly watchful, listening,

 

May He be our default today...in the busyness of today, as we take a deep breath to reload… may my  thoughts automatically turn to Him, my eyes look up to the One enthroned in heaven and may I

         obey His commands

                    follow Him with all my heart

                                 and always do whatever He wants me to do.