Conforming to the Spirit

 Text: John 1:4 "In him was life; and the life was the light of men".

 John 15:14 "If ye love me, keep my commandments"

God created us to overcome. When God created man, He told him to rule over

the world and take care of it. Just this command alone is a commission to

dominate. Since God’s commission for man at creation, every manner of

creature has been subdued and ruled over. Horses run for the rider, and the rider

turns the horse with a tiny bit. He spurs the creature on, and it obeys him.

Dolphins do flips and tricks for a single fish, and dogs roll and bark for a pat on

the head. Mankind has mastered all things and overcome everything under

heaven, yet no man has tamed his own heart.

For the hearts of men are still with sin, and they fill our mouths with evil. How

then can we be led by our own hearts? They are tainted with sin!

Like a blind man groping to see, so the heart of a man understands his life

around him. But God is the light of the eye, and by His heart, we can understand

the meaning of life. If we submit to His direction and opinions, we will find the

perfect course in life. If we seek to pave our own paths, we’ll be a sailing ship

without a rudder. Image the turmoil that enters the heart in the day a raging

storm comes. For without a rudder, no one can avoid the sinking and rising of

the sea through finding safe harbor.

Our conscious thought helps us to perceive our daily need for Christ and our

need to correct ourselves as we follow Him. If we choose to be ruled by

anything, then God’s love should be the dictator of our hearts. We must allow

His heart to reign over our own. If we love God, we’ll seek to continually please

Him. In order to please Him, we need to obey Him. Even as Jesus said,

“You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.” (John 15:14)

In this, you need to make use of your God-given self-awareness. Constantly

focus on your weaknesses and need for growth. Don’t consider your strengths.

By dwelling on them, they will become an issue of pride. Thus your strengths

will be the source of your greatest weaknesses because everyone falls through

pride.

When you compare yourself to God, you begin to realize that everything you are

and in everything you have, you are altogether weak and in need of a Savior.

Admit this, and make His strength your strength. For a strong Christian is not

determined by his own strength. Rather, he is weak and able to admit it. Then by

admitting that he is altogether weak, he makes Christ his strength.

God bless 

@ *KINGDOM AMBASSADORS*