Posts Tagged ‘Christ’

I just did not have the words this morning so I am going to do something that I normally don’t do.  I am going to simply put my devotion reading this morning up so that you can read it and let it speak to you.  For me it was just to much of where I am for me to speak on it.  I pray that God will speak to you out of it.

Jerusalem, in the life of our Lord, represents the place where He reached the culmination of His Father’s will. Jesus said, “I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” ( John 5:30 ). Seeking to do “the will of the Father” was the one dominating concern throughout our Lord’s life. And whatever He encountered along the way, whether joy or sorrow, success or failure, He was never deterred from that purpose. “. . . He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem . . .” ( Luke 9:51  ).

The greatest thing for us to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to fulfill God’s purpose, not our own. In the natural life our ambitions are our own, but in the Christian life we have no goals of our own. We talk so much today about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, and our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament the only aspect that is brought out is the compelling purpose of God. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you . . .” ( John 15:16  ).

We are not taken into a conscious agreement with God’s purpose— we are taken into God’s purpose with no awareness of it at all. We have no idea what God’s goal may be; as we continue, His purpose becomes even more and more vague. God’s aim appears to have missed the mark, because we are too nearsighted to see the target at which He is aiming. At the beginning of the Christian life, we have our own ideas as to what God’s purpose is. We say, “God means for me to go over there,” and, “God has called me to do this special work.” We do what we think is right, and yet the compelling purpose of God remains upon us. The work we do is of no account when compared with the compelling purpose of God. It is simply the scaffolding surrounding His work and His plan. “He took the twelve aside . . .” ( Luke 18:31  ). God takes us aside all the time. We have not yet understood all there is to know of the compelling purpose of God.

God Bless ~ Pastor Tyler

This morning as I was driving into the cedars to fix some issues I was priviledged enough to enjoy a great sunrise.  Now it was not a full sunrise but just the glimpse of light on the horizon.  It was still dark outside and all that you could really see was the ever so faint hint of light beginning to protrude over the mountains.  As I drove and watched, my mind wandered to the amount of time that I let my world revolve around the fact that I have still have not found permanent work and how much have a missed going on around me because of that preoccupation.  Now, don’t get me wrong I have been blessed to have watched God move in more ways than I have time to tell you about in this blog but how many have I still missed due to my own distractions.   And this morning as I watched the first light beam crest the horizon I was brought to the thoughts of how when life feels sometime so dark around us and we are consummed by black and insecurity that should be when we see the Christ the best, but we sometimes stare to much into the dark.  Take a break from the dark and the consumption to stare at the light and enjoy the peace of mind that the void will soon be over.  I am not fully aware if any of that makes sense but this morning in my head it did!

God Bless ~ Tyler