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Author: Pastor Wally Glucklich
Source: Elim Family News
Jan. 1, 2010
Living 2009 in 2010? "This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did." 1 John 2:5,6
Do you remember what happened in your life in 1009? Was it a family, health, employment or financial issue? All we know is that we do not know what tomorrow will bring. Ginny and I certainly were stopped in our tracks on June 23, 2009. But what will this year bring that will challenge our walk with God? How will we respond? Have we matured in our faith to cope with God's direction for our lives? Oswald Chambers raises the issue for us in this, his December 29th reading. |
When God gives a vision by His Spirit through His word of what He wants, and your mind and soul thrill to it, if you do not walk in the light of that vision, you will sink into servitude to a point of view which Our Lord never had. Disobedience in mind to the heavenly vision will make you a slave to points of view that are alien to Jesus Christ. Do not look at someone else and say - Well, if he can have those views and prosper, why cannot I? You have to walk in the light of the vision that has been given to you and not compare yourself with others or judge them, that is between them and God. When you find that a point of view in which you have been delighting clashes with the heavenly vision and you debate, certain things will begin to develop in you - a sense of property and a sense of personal right, things of which Jesus Christ made nothing. He was always against these things as being the root of everything alien to Himself. "A man's life consists not in the abundance of the things that he possess." If we do not recognize this, it is because we are ignoring the undercurrent of Our Lord's teaching.
We are apt to lie back and bask in the memory of the wonderful experience we have had. If there is one standard in the New Testament revealed by the light of God and you do not come up to it, and do not feel inclined to come up to it, that is the beginning of backsliding, because it means your conscience does not answer to the truth. You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you for going on as a more true disciple of Jesus Christ or for going back as a deserter.
"From that time many of His disciples went back,
and walked no more with Him." John 6:66
Oswald Chambers Dec. 29th.
As we begin a new year, on what will we spend our time, energy and money? What does our hearts long for? How will we cope with the challenges that we will encounter? In 2010, will our lives only be a repeat of 2009 or 2008 or 2007 or will we grow in our "walk with Jesus"?
Can we ask the Holy Spirit to help us "walk as Jesus did?" 1 John 2:6 |
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