Day 3 Problem :: 2019 FMF 31 Days Writing Challenge :: Going With God

I titled this series, “Going with God” because I see the primary focus of a Christian’s life is to please Him and listen for His shepherding voice.

Going is a succession of departures and arrivals. Beginnings and endings. When done according to God’s will we’ll reach our final destination to His unveiled Presence in Heaven. What joy!

The thing about this sojourn in the ways of God is that He doesn’t place us on a track, lock us on target, and coldly watch as we go the right way without our voluntary participation.

God’s utmost joy is that we desire Him the way He desires us.

The greatest commandment, as quoted by Jesus in the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, comes from Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” (NASB)

Without Christ doing His transforming and sanctifying work in us we function with a heart that is deceitful, a mind that cannot understand Truth, and a willful defiance that demands our own corrupt ways.

To have a heart after His in spite of the ongoing battle between our flesh and God’s Spirit needs to be our moment by moment goal. It isn’t a natural motivation for us to love God until the Holy Spirit empowers us to want to love God back.

O Lord, help us to do what it says in Proverbs 3:5-6 (NASB)
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
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How about you? How has God shown you the blessing that comes from leaning into Him?

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