Rom 12:2
I am sure many of us, Christians, at one point of our walks with God ever asked this question: "How do i know what God wants me to do?" There is no specific technical procedure of getting 'there' but intimacy is the what we'd need to have to unlock that divine understanding.
This is just a sharing of what I've got from ignite and also daily bread devotional that i read at the same night. As the year was nearing to an end, Ps Dave encouraged the young people to seek God, and lay down our burdens before Him, and clean the slate to welcome the new year with joy and hope for the better before the perfection. It's as simply as just come before Him just as you are at cross of Christ, to seek not His 'hands' but His 'face'.
How many of us have been so busy lately that we haven't got time to have quiet time in our rooms and try to listen to His voice speaking to us, to just feel His presence, knowing who He is as He has revealed to us through the holy book; He is almighty yet loving. This time when our mind is renewed by His Words with the help of Holy Spirit's intercession, results in a sense of intimacy with the holy and living God!
When was the last time you were overwhelmed with love and grace?
When was the last time you came to Him and traded your sorrows with joy?
Remember how He had comforted you when you were in distress, when nothing seemed to be right?
You know what, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He wants you to come back to that sacred place only you and Him when you have your sense of security 'in Christ alone'.
When you have that peace that transcends knowledge and understanding, you'll be able to discern Him speaking to you, His Words become alive in you, and your heart's desire will be stirred up to obey Him out of love.
Jesus Himself did say,"If you love me, keep my commandments."
And I like what Oswald Chambers wrote: If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says..."and if I hesitate, it is because I love someone else I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.”
It is so true. When we obey His commands even though it's the opposite of our flesh desire,or seems ridiculous from this world's point of view, we exercise love and have faith in Him more than we do in ourselves.
This is why it's only make sense that we will be more willing to obey Him when we have intimate relationship with Him and know that He is God. We may have more faith in Him and we will step out of the comfort zone to follow His guidance, knowing that He is with us and He is watching over us. You will treat the pain differently, because you simply do it out of love not obligation. And along the way, you will be transformed, without even realizing that you are in the process. Because that is His ultimate goal of our lives, to be transformed into the image of His son, Jesus Christ, who is also a reflection of God Himself.
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