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How many did you win?  How many did you sell?  How much profit did you make?  These are the questions that the world asks.  This world is all about measuring bottom line results.

Do we have the ultimate relationship with Jesus Christ that God desires for us to have?  Are we following the processes and plans that the Holy Spirit has given us for our lives?  Have we abandoned or ignored supernatural guidance in order to follow our own plans?  These are the questions that God asks.  God’s kingdom is not about results.  God’s kingdom is based on relationship and spiritual process.  

Life’s great challenge is to choose our master.  Are we wise enough  in God’s sight and foolish enough according to the world to choose Jesus as Our Master?

We should not overwhelm ourselves by doing good things while missing the things God has planned for us.  We tend to overload ourselves with “good” activities while leaving ourselves with too little time to commune with God.  How can we hear His calling if we are not spending time listening to Him?

We should also be alert to the possibility that we are doing so many “good” things that we are neglecting the needs of our own families.  As we listen for God’s calling, there is one certain aspect that will always be there.  Our Heavenly Father will insure that we have time to adequately care for the needs of our families first before we are extended any further. 

God calls people to all walks of life.  Some are called to full time ministries, but most are not.  Most people are called to traditional occupations.  All people are called to let Christ show through them wherever they are and in whatever they are doing.

When we live our lives fully submitted to Jesus, He will surely draw spiritual production through us within the structure of our natural lives.  And we will be called men and women of God and the glory will go to Him.

As Christians, we are living testimonies of Christ within us.  It is not enough that we have a compelling story to share with the world about how we were saved and what it means to us.  While this is good news to share, the world needs to see more.  

The world needs to see us living a life that reflects Christ’s presence in us.  Those around us need to see our living testimony revealed through every single action we take and every single word we speak.

The two greatest commandments, as given to us by Jesus, are:  1)  Love God with your whole heart, mind, soul and strength.  2)  Love thy neighbor as thyself.  He then said all other commandments hang off of these two.

No man, not one, can fully meet the requirements of these two great commandments – not in the flesh.  Only through our new nature in Christ can we meet these standards.  Even when we approach meeting them on occasion, we are reminded in the spirit how far we are from perfection in these two basic areas.

Wherever God appears is a holy place.  (When Moses approached the burning bush, he was told to remove his shoes because he was standing on holy ground.)  So if we are looking for God to reveal Himself to us, we must prepare a holy place for Him.  We prepare that holy place by accepting Jesus as Our Savior.  With our sins washed away by the blood of Jesus and His Spirit indwelling in us, we become a holy temple ready to receive the witness and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.


To receive the fullness of the power of the Holy Spirit and to build the depth of our relationship with Almighty God, we must be in complete surrender to our new life in Christ.  Anything that we hold on to from the world that diminishes our surrender to Christ will restrict the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Strike back.  Respond in defense.  Prove that I am right.  All of these are natural human responses during personal conflict.

When we are followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to a different standard – “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”  Choosing this standard requires a supernatural response when we run into personal conflicts.  We are to express the love of Christ in every instance.  Often this will include forgiving the other party in the heat of the conflict.  Only our strength through Jesus allows us to meet His standard.

Once we have accepted Jesus as Our Savior, our salvation is assured and our sanctification process begins.  It is God’s will that we will be made holy like He is holy.  Through the atonement process, Jesus has provided us with that which we did not earn and certainly do not deserve.

According to His promises, Jesus will complete in us that which we could not do without His constant grace.  He will make us holy.  All we have to do is to humbly submit to His work in our lives.

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.