How’s Our Walk—Today?
Who guides us?
Who guides our actions?
Whose approval do we seek most?
If we are truthful with ourselves, we will have different answers for these three questions (and oftentimes different days of the week bring different answers).
Jesus knew this when He spoke to the “religious” when He spoke to the Pharisees about serving two masters (Luke 16:13).
Jesus knew their hearts; He knew they would hate one (master) and be devoted to another (master).
Jesus knew the religious could not serve God and wealth.
And
Jesus knows how this truth is His truth still today.
Jesus knows how we can give our heart to God and then easily fall back into the pattern of following our own agenda, our own heart.
God knows us because He created us.
Jesus knows us because He saved us and brought us to new life.
God’s Holy Spirit came into us at the moment of our salvation and remains within us as we walk through our lives.
The fruit of God’s Spirit can sustain us as we go but only if we are seeking Him. Please do not believe anything but God’s Word.
“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you [the Apostle Paul warns us in his letter to the church at Galatia], just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
(Galatians 5: 19-26)
But the fruit of the Spirit is
LOVE,
JOY,
PEACE,
PATIENCE,
KINDNESS,
GOODNESS,
FAITHFULNESS,
GENTLENESS,
SELF-CONTROL;
against such things there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us walk by the Spirit.
Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.”
When we live for following one master who is not our Savior and LORD, we are only fooling ourselves and maybe trying to fool the world, BUT maybe not even the world because people see what we DO far more than they ever hear what we say.
Our campus minister spoke these words earlier this week (words I paraphrase today)—Someone needs you to live a God-focused & faithful life.
Jesus knows us, and He knows how our actions lead us to an unfaithful life, one where our witness will not and maybe cannot reach others for Christ IN THE WAY our lives COULD IF WE WERE FAITHFUL to SERVE only ONE MASTER.
I am so thankful of God’s mercy and grace.
In fact the Bible tells us how His mercy is new every morning, reminding us how our walk with Jesus begins afresh every day.
EVERY DAY.
EVERY MORNING.
EVERY PERSON WHO CALLS CHRIST “LORD.”
EVEN TODAY!
Whatever we did or did not DO or whatever we did or did not SAY—YESTERDAY—Is gone because—
Today Is Today—A New Day. Hallelujah! Thank You God!
We cannot relive yesterday ANY MORE than we cannot live out tomorrow BEFORE tomorrow becomes today. Sit there a moment and allow this thought to marinate within your mind. We know we cannot turn back time, so why do we think our faithfulness to God yesterday is sufficient for our walk with Him today?!!!
Truly, what we DID or DID NOT DO yesterday & what we SAID or DID NOT SAY for our LORD yesterday is GONE!
Today is only sufficient for today?!!
We must be in the moment.
We must live within this one day.
How are we doing so far? How’s Our Walk—Today?
My mom has always said it this way, “This is how we can Know that we Know that we Know” how God’s grace found through His salvation is Sufficient, is Enough, is more than Adequate, is Right, and how God makes us—JUST AS IF WE NEVER SINNED.
ACCEPT HIS TRUTH.
BELIEVE.
CONFESS OUR SINS.
GOD’S GRACE COVERS THE MULTITUDE OF OUR SINS.
&
HIS MERCY WAS NEW YESTERDAY.
& AGAIN TODAY.
& THEN HIS MERCY WILL BE NEW IF WE LIVE INTO TOMORROW.
“Thank You, God.
We are such weak vessels.
We need You so much!
Help us seek Your will for this—our today.
Help us seek you more than wealth, more than health, more than knowledge, more than relationships, more than love of ourselves—-MORE THAN ANY OTHER THING.
HELP US, LORD, SEEK YOU.
We pray this today.
Amen.”