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The world is all about results.  The Lord is all about process.  

What does this mean to us as Christians?  It means that God is more concerned about our relationship and intimacy with Jesus than He is in our public usefulness to men.  For all good work will flow supernaturally from our Christian lives as a result of our relationship with Jesus.  If any good work emanates from any other source, it is of no real value to God.  God receives the praise and glory that is His alone through our works that are done as a result of our relationship with our Savior.

To successfully wade through life’s challenges, we must turn our focus on Jesus.  His ways, not ours, are the ways we need to follow in every circumstance.  By following His nature, and not our own, we will be able to successfully navigate through all of our problems and opportunities.

By going with the flow of His living water instead of always fighting our own way upstream, we will find life to be easier and much more satisfying.  Additionally, when we are in communion with Jesus, the world around us will see and benefit from the natural outpouring of His Spirit within us.

Most of us will never set foot on foreign soil in an effort to win souls for Jesus.  Nor will we step to a podium to stir a great revival.  But each one of us can pray continuously for the Lord to extend His loving kindness, mercy and grace to a darkened world so that His light can be revealed to those who are living in darkness.

In some cases, the Lord may ask us to be the laborer bringing in the harvest of a soul.  But in most cases, our calling will be to serve the Lord by praying for His divine light to be released to those around us and by living in such a way that others would want to follow us in our walk with Jesus.

God creates every single living person in His image.  It is His will that none shall perish.  He loves each one with the fullness of His perfect love.  To each He extends His forgiveness for their sin through His Son, Jesus Christ.  

To each that receive His Son as their Savior, He gives His Holy Spirit to dwell within them so that they can proclaim the Good News of salvation and provide a living testimony to the unsaved around them.  Thus the Lord sends His laborers throughout the world.

God so loved the world that He gave His Son to die for all the sins of every person.  In this one act, we see the full expression of God’s perfect love and forgiveness. 

When we receive Jesus as Our Savior, we receive His perfect love and forgiveness.  We also receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit which leads us to share this perfect love and forgiveness with the world around us.  We are called to make this full expression of love and forgiveness to every man in every place without withholding even the smallest portion.

There is not a single work that we do that has God saying, “Thanks, I could not have accomplished my plans without you.”  If God has anything that He would like to see done through human efforts, He can always find a replacement for us if we refuse to follow His calling.

The loss will never be His.  The loss is always ours when we are not obedient to what the Lord is calling us to do.  The work that we do for the Lord does more for our sanctification than anything else.  Who we are in Christ is defined by our obedience.

Every man is called to lead his family spiritually.  When the fullness of the calling hits him, he soon realizes how ill equipped he is for the work and how ill prepared his family is to receive him.

This is all part of the God-work that begins once the man expresses his desire to God to meet his calling.  God has complete control of all aspects of the work to be done in the man and in his family.  God will overcome all the individual disappointment and provide for all the personal enlargement needed to fulfill the calling.

“Enoch walked with God.”  (Genesis 5:24)  How cool would that be?  At any given time, just dial up the ruler and creator of the universe and invite Him for a walk.  It sounds impossible and nearly unimaginable.  Yet it is absolutely within our reach.

The only obstacle to dialing up God is that we have to be on the same line with Him.  We can only get on the same line by shedding all the old lines of distraction in our lives.  Certainly a lot of personal work to be done there, but well worth the effort considering the benefit.

“Mommy, I really want a chocolate cake,” is a child’s simple request.  Mommy says, “OK, but not now.  I will do it later when I have all the ingredients and I can make the cake exactly how you like it”.

This is how God works with each of us.  He hears our prayers and He prepares the perfect answer.  He does not rush to provide an answer to our prayers.  He waits for all the best “ingredients” to be in place.  He wants to prepare only the best for us – just like Mommy.

As parents, we understand the joy of an obedient child.  The obedient child’s constant compliance melts our hearts.  It is likely that we extend special favor to the obedient child.  It is also easier for us to give the child greater responsibility because we are confident that they will handle it appropriately.  

So it is with God.  He rejoices in His obedient children who are compliant to His Word, His laws and His calling on their lives.  He rewards them with more knowledge and greater responsibility in the Kingdom.