We must all arrive at a correct
understanding to clearly hear the voice of God in our lives. That statement
would seem like a no brainer and should be obvious to all, but is it? Let us delve
a little deeper. Firstly if my ears have been tweaked to “selfish wants” I will
not be in the zone I ort to be with my flesh playing its part in hindering
those life-changing gems from above, my flesh acts like a sound proof room
filled with empty egg boxes pasted all over the walls. It muffles the clarity
of what is actually being transmitted. In other words we must put on the mind
of Christ, I know I say this often but it must become part of our characters if
we are to grow up into His likeness. It must become our first port of call and
not the second. This then is the call for all who claim salvation in Him. The
Apostle Peter is very clear on this; “Since therefore
Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the
flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the
flesh no longer for human
passions but for the will of God.” (1Peter 4:1-2)
Our life after
conversion is about the will of God, in fact regardless of mans intent
everything will eventually align itself with God’s will.
He is the director of the universe and whether people acknowledge this truth or
not will make no difference to the end result that I can guarantee you. However
for the Christian it’s about learning to tweak our ears to His voice, this is
the key to unlocking peace within our souls. And it would be good for us to
understand the theory behind it all and then we can call upon our great Saviour
to find grace in time of need to appropriate these truths into our lives.
We must all conclude that suffering is part of
our internship; we must stop trying to skirt this reality. Instead of always
asking the question, why? Let us rather probe our thoughts to inquire, what I
am being taught through the test. And we will soon realise that it all pivots
on our faith in Him. Read Hebrews chapter 11 and it will soon become obvious
that the point I stress is accurate. Independence is our enemy and not our confederate.
Our dependence upon the grace of God in time of need is all we require to
become effective Christians.
However this does not come naturally to us as
humans, we need to put on the mind of Christ to find this reality.
Our
eternal existences depend on one thing alone and that is the Word of God. God
has proved this to us from the beginning and the Apostle John saw this clearly
and that is why I think He began His Gospel with these words; “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with
God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made
that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:1-5)
– Later on in the chapter he educates us to this truth; “And the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the
only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) – And I will remind you that John
was called the beloved disciple and if we want to embrace God’s love to the
fullest degree we must learn from him; “Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom
one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.” (John 13:23) – John was allowed to rest upon the Lord Jesus’
bosom, it was a place reserved by the Lord for him, wow! What a privilege he
was afforded. Imagine the intimacy they shared. In fact history teaches us that
he was the only disciple that wasn’t martyred.
In conclusion let us
remember that God’s ways are not the ways of the world, His brilliance is far
higher than the scurvy found in this world. Let us learn to appropriate the Word
of life into our lives, whatever the cost and it will be well with our souls.
That does not mean that we will only ever need to suffer continuously, God
understands our frailty and He often brings us relief when we have learnt what
is needed to go on towards His perfection, praise His name now and forever
more, Amen and Amen!
Signing off
Tyrone
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