KNOWING JESUS – The Keeper of Our Heart

One of the greatest inclination of human beings is to zero in on their faith at the cost of its true meaning. This holds true to all faiths but never is the mistake more serious than when we do this to the Son of God. Throughout the Bible we see where the Pharisees were more concerned with the Sabbath and the temple than they were with The Lord of the Sabbath. They were more concerned with the details,their rules and laws that they missed the bigger picture. Have true this is in the church world today. So many Christians are more worried with the by laws of the church, what the general overseer wants, what the current events are in the church that they miss the Master as He walks by. They fail to reach out and touch Him, talk to him, and fellowship with Him.
We , sometimes, are more concerned with the details and miss the bigger picture in our relationship with the Lord. On Sunday Mornings we experience worship services without really experiencing worship. We sometimes have Bible studies without fellowshipping with the author. We do works of ministry without relying on the One who would minister through us, if we would only let Him. Some Christians go from a personal relationship with The Master to Him being the object of it. We, as Christians, must realize and understand that someone greater than all our church activities and beliefs is here. When Christians realize this more prayers would be answered, more people healed, more of the Glory of The Lord would be felt.
The question that all Christians must ask their self is what part of our faith is a genuine relationship with the Lord and what part is just religious activities. We must know the difference between the two. We can criticize the blindness of the Pharisees and their short comings toward the Lord but the church world can be just as blind. It is easy for some Christians to go from knowing our Savior to just practicing Christianity. When we do this we are no different than the Pharisees of Jesus' time.
It is so sad for Jesus to become someone that we talk about, the founder of our faith, rather than someone we talk to and are close to. Someone that we have a daily fellowship with. We must always know who walks with us and who the keeper of our heart is.
A great many of the churches and denominations, today, are more like a social club than a church of our living savior. They have garage sales, yard sales, soup sales, chicken dinner sales, fashion shows, bingo, and many other things to make money for the church to become more big and more noticed. They have basketball courts, fashion shows, rock concerts, cruises, and many other things to entice people to come to church. On the sign in front of the church we read messages that advertise all the above. I'm not saying that most of these things are wrong but the House of God was not intended for all that. My question is where does Jesus fit into all of this?
A church is to bring people to Christ and that is by the drawing of His Spirit and the Word of God when it is preached, not by the many things listed above. All we need is Jesus.