by David Brenneman
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you."
Psalms 32:8
Today, here are three things you need to know as you wait on the Lord's direction. First, God will show you His will. He desires that you walk according to His plan and assumes responsibility for teaching you how to do so. It is, however, your responsibility to obey what He
leads you to do.
Second, the Father is committed to your success. From the time you were born, God has been working through the circumstances of your life to train you for His purposes. So commit yourself to following wherever the Lord leads you with confidence that He will equip and empower you to accomplish whatever He's planned for you to do.
Third, God will redirect you when you make a wrong turn. So do not fear going forward when He calls. No matter how badly you mess up, the Father will take the broken pieces of your life and with the glue of His unconditional love, put it back together. He will take you where you are and help you get back on the right track with His wisdom and strength.
Jesus, thank You for teaching, leading, equipping, and redirecting me because of Your great love. Amen.
-Trusting God with Today.
There is a divine purpose under Heaven for each and every single Believer in Jesus Christ...yes...even for you...yes you...if you do have Jesus Christ as the forgiver of your sins and the leader of your life.
You're not still here just to use up your years of physical life that you have left. You were given spiritual gifts from the Spirit as He saw fit. You were given a divine purpose under Heaven to both grow in Christ and to be a light in this present dark world.
You weren't given an empty toolbox. You were given the abilities necessary to search out the things of God that make for the righteous life that God desires for you.
You were given His Word to search diligently. You were granted full access to the Throne Room of God.
You became His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works that you might walk in them.
So what are you doing with what you've been given? Is it gathering dust? Wrapped up and buried in a hole in the ground? Are you afraid to pursue what the Spirit is leading you to? Are you putting self ahead of what you're to be doing in Christ?
Even Christians break their commitments to others for worldly reasons. Sometimes even selfish or self-centered reasons.
Even Christians are tempted to put aside the will of God. Essentially that's one of the biggest schemes of the devil. He can't do anything about your being saved but he can make things of this world and selfish desires, selfish choices, more appealing than obeying the voice of God.
How frequently are you in God's Word? If you're not in it daily, let alone more than once a day, why aren't you? There's no worldly excuse that is acceptable for neglecting being in the Word of God. None.
How frequently are you talking to your Savior and Lord Jesus Christ? How frequently are you talking to your Father in Heaven?
These things are among those that are the will of God for us in Christ.
Give up whatever you need to in order to obey God. It's rather simple.
You might not be facing heavy spiritual battles for a very good reason: You're already where the enemy of God wants you. You're already lukewarm where he wants you and Jesus does not (read Revelation's letters to the Churches). When there's no reason to attack you, Satan's minions go somewhere else. You could be right where they want you.
Look to what King David said "Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way." Psalms 139:23-24.
King David prayed that prayer. We can too.
Do we really want to stand before Jesus ashamed of the truth of our lives we lived?
You who are in Christ have are to be transformed, trained in righteousness, to be adequate, equipped for every good work of God. That's sort of paraphrasing several passages but it's the truth in their meaning for the will of God for us in Christ...our sanctification.
Give up whatever you must to be living the righteous life that God desires for you. Be it movies, games, sports, reading, television, streaming videos, traveling, whatever isn't allowing you to grow in Christ as the Spirit is charged with doing in your life.
It's been a difficult, complicated, road at times to truly understand the depth of what Paul was saying when he said "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ." Philippians 3:7. And again with "More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:8-12.
Repeatedly in the Scriptures we read "Consider your ways".
My Dear Reader it's infinitely more beneficial to do so now when we can do something about it than when we stand before Jesus.
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Obey in whatever you're being directed to do. Learn all you can about living the righteous life that God desires for you.
All NASB Scripture Excerpts used by permission.
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