Dec. 8, 2015

MY FRIENDS, DO WE KNOW WHERE GOD IS LEADING?

We try and follow Gods hand in determining what direction He’s leading. In our limited capacity to comprehend the things of God we figure we can move along with Him and his way of thinking.

But then all of a sudden, we don’t have a clue where He is leading, so we panic. And that my friends is the world we live in and we call it life. A place where we are always living under the umbrella of uncertainty.

But, as a child of God, it is God’s hand and heart that guides us. But as a heir to God’s kingdom and a joint heir with His Son Jesus Christ it seems appropriate to make it personal at times as we fall on our knees and ask God what’s going on.

Are You telling me to go? Are You telling me to stay? Are You telling me to hold on to You for another day? Because there is complete silence and my life is just not at the place I thought it would be at this particular time in my life.

But my friends, the key words are life is just not at the place I thought it would be. What I am trying to say is I as in you and I must be completely eliminated. Remember self has died.

In addition, we “have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer you and I who live, but Christ lives in us; and the life which we now live in the flesh we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself up for us.” Gal. 3:20 (NASB)

And the same question that God ask Job we must answer also “Where were [we] when God laid the foundations of the earth?…….. “Have [we ever] commanded the morning since our days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,” Job 38 (NKJV)

My friends, what we need to understand, if we are God’s chosen then we are His personal tapestry, one that our God is weaving daily and one day we will be just like him. “Now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” 1 John 3:2 (NKJV)

A tapestry is a piece of fabric consisting of material that you bend or twist out of shape, upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design. Those bends and twist are each of the Trials we face each day.

But its all about shaping us into a design that is pleasing in His sight and one day with no reservations God can say these are my children and they are “safe to save” It is not the perfect life that prepares us for the kingdom of God, but the mountains and rough terrains that advance us on our Christian journey.

And at the same time we continue to yield to the will of God without restrictions, because “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Mark 8:34 (NKJV)

And that choice brings about our responsibility to serve. For the only choice that has any meaning in a child of God’s life is the choice that we have made to serve God as we tread cheerfully on the path in which faith, Grace, love, mercy, humility, endurance and God’s Providence leads.

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.