Through Jesus' Love

We all want to jump ahead to the “big event” in our lives.  For most of us, God’s plan for our lives does not call for a big event.  God calls us to a series of small acts of obedience, all strung together by periods of God asking us to wait for His next move in our lives.  Along the way, if we have waited on Him in obedience to His calling, we will have accomplished great things for God.  Most of the things that we will have accomplished for His Kingdom, we will not even be aware of.  This is God’s way of protecting us from our own pride.

Impatience is our biggest enemy.  If we rush ahead of God’s guidance, we risk missing it all.  The good things that we do are never as good as the the God things that He has planned for us.  

The Bible is nothing more than a collection of stories until we receive Jesus into our lives.  When we receive Jesus and His Holy Spirit, the Bible becomes life itself.  The words in the Bible certainly take on a new life as they reveal the Truth to us in ways we could not have ever seen without the intercession of the Holy Spirit.  When we go to the Word of God, we now meet God Himself as He reveals Himself to us through His words.

For most of us, there is not going to be a “burning bush” experience.  Only a chosen few get a direct calling from God.  For most of us, the power of the Holy Spirit simply draws us toward the Father.  In that drawing, we are called to obey God in many small ways.  Each small submission in obedience puts us closer in step with God’s plan for our lives.  Through the process, we learn who God is and we develop our relationship with Him.  Through the grace of God, we join Him in doing His work – no matter where, when or how.

There is truly no area of grey when it comes to our commitment to Jesus Christ.  Once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, His Spirit dwells within us.  His Spirit will root out everything that does not meet the standards of Jesus and will put us on a direct path to bring glory to God the Father and His Son.  If we waiver, we come under heavy pruning or heavy discipline.  If we are obedient, we move toward giving our utmost to Jesus.