To be a child of God is not just a
belief. It is a way of living.
It means to be led by the Holy Spirit, to
truly know Jesus Christ for real, to seek
His guidance in all things, and to do
what He tells us to do, in real life.
Many believers want to fit Jesus Christ
into their life, but if we follow Jesus
then He is our life, and He directs our
footsteps, He provides in all our needs,
He guides us and He teaches us, but we
have to trust Him and follow Him; and
that is what most believers never do.
They have a form of godliness, they have
religion, but they do not have Jesus. They
do not know Jesus, they do not follow Him.
They follow their own mind and they
want Jesus to do things for them,
according to their plan. The kingdom of God
is about Jesus Christ, and if we want to
enter His kingdom, we have to follow and
obey Him. He put us where we are for His
purpose, and we can only serve Him, and
serve His purpose if we are truly led by
the Holy Spirit. But if we follow our own
mind and try to get Jesus to do for us
and give to us, what we think, then our
lives are about ourselves; then it's not
about Jesus. Jesus has a plan and a
purpose for each of us, and we have to
ask Him, seek His guidance trust Him,
wait on Him, believe when He speaks to us,
and then obey. Very few people do that.
Since I have committed my life to Jesus
He has directed my footsteps.
Both my wife and me serve Jesus together,
and He has very often given us direction,
and very clear direction. I will share a
few instances with you. Some years ago
Jesus showed my wife that we were to buy
a piece of land close to where we used
to live. The street name that He gave her
was a River road. When we came to the
place that Jesus had shown her it was a
new development that we did not even
know about, and we picked out a stand
that we bought on his command and later
we found out that it was River road. We
built a house on that stand and later
Jesus told us to sell it and use the
proceeds to do what He further wanted us
to do.
Jesus has guided us step-by-step in many
instances, many circumstances. When we had
a family crisis we prayed, and Jesus gave
us clear direction when. When I had crises
at work,
industrial problems, I would pray and
Jesus would give me clear direction. He
would give me a dream, or He would tell
me what to do.
There are hundreds of instances that
I can share with you that Jesus told us
to do things; told me to go and speak to
a specific person. Jesus sent me to
university to go and study when I had no
desire to study, but I obeyed Him. Jesus
sent me to the United States, I had no
desire to go there, but it was all for His
purpose. We cannot tell Jesus what He
must do for us. It is about us doing His
will, being useful for Him and for His
kingdom. If Jesus Christ is not our life,
then we are not following Him. If we still
want to have our own life, do our own
things, and it's about us. Many people
want to use Jesus for their own purpose,
they want Jesus to give them talents to
do certain things, to achieve certain
things in life. They want Jesus to enable
them to go to college, or to do certain
things; but is that the will of God? Is
that His plan?
We can only be pleasing to Jesus if we
seek His will, seek His guidance. You
might want to marry a certain girl or boy;
that might not be the person that God
has in mind for you, but you want that
person, that is your desire. We must
submit ourselves to Jesus, get our focus
on Him and He will guide us, He will
teach us, He will supply in all our needs.
He will enable us
to do everything that He requires of us,
and we will bear fruit for His
kingdom, because without Jesus we can do
nothing.
Jesus Christ is real. He's alive, He is God,
you first need to be born again and know
Jesus Christ for real before you can
follow Him, but you have to be serious. If
you are not serious about following
Jesus, then He will not guide you, and if
He speaks to you, you will doubt and then
you will totally go into darkness,
because we follow Jesus by faith not by
our own desires, or our own opinion. He
often tells us to do things that are
opposed to what we thought. We must not
lean on our own understanding,
but totally trust in Jesus and seek to
please Him. If we still seek to please
ourselves and other people, if we are
still worried about what others think of
us, then we cannot be concerned about what
Jesus thinks or whether He is
pleased with us. We must absolutely and
totally submit ourselves to Jesus, trust
Him, ask His guidance, be serious,
wait on Him and He will guide us, every
step of the way. Will it be easy? No,
because it's not rational;
it's not like the rest of the world; it's
not like the other people, because we are
following and obeying the unseen God, but
He manifests Himself in that which we
can see and touch,
in real life. If you do not follow and
obey Jesus, if you do not trust Him with
all your heart, you will never get to
know Him.
We have to fully trust, obey and follow
Jesus, obey Him. He will reveal Himself to
us if we seek Him with all our heart.
Jesus Christ is real, He is God, He is alive. If
we do not experience Him as real, it is
because we do not really know Him.
May Jesus bless you.