are we paying lip service only?

 Lately I have been hitting on a certain point and there is a question I think we need answered for the daily average American Christian. (Yes I know I am assuming a lot and this does not apply to you.)

Do we truly believe in the Power of God and His ability to work? Do we believe He is Almighty God? Powerful and Holy?
I honestly believe we have gotten to the point where the bible says:

Isa_29:13  Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

I made the statement in Sunday School a few weeks ago that if we truly read and believe what happened in Acts and the Mighty works of God used to spread the Gospel, then we ought to believe that God can work today, for He is the same. All that has changed through the years is us, therefore we must be the problem.

Yet we accept diminished returns, we accept the low crowd count, we accept and cry "aye di me tis the times and the fashions."

Yet we limit Him after all He can not work in today's technology driven world can He? Surely modern man is not too sophisticated to allow Him to work.

I believe we gather in church but we do not know God, we seek the affirmation of His Love yet we do not seek His Will, His Face or His Mind.

I believe we have made all things common and superficial including our God, instead of making Him sacred and Holy.

I remember a time when everyone would cringe if you set anything on God's Word, the Bible. No item was to be above it.

I remember a time when the church was revered and the man of God was respected.

Those are just the instruments and symbols of our God, yet they have lost respect, they have lost sacredness.

Yet, did they lose it? Or did we lose our awe factor? Did we remove it from God?

Are we teaching the precepts of men, traditions and ceremonies instead of searching for God? Seeking His Face? 

Because if we truly search and seek we might actualloy have to change and do something for Him.

In the Acts they shook the world with prayer and preaching but we do not even shake our own lives.

Act 4:31  And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.