Doing What God Wants
By Richard
I don’t know about you but from time to time I find myself asking the question, “What does God really want me to do, here in the 21st Century?” In John 6 we find that the Jews who were listening to Jesus asked Him the same question. “What must we do to do the works that God requires?” (John 6: 28). Jesus’ answer is interesting! He says that the principal action that God is looking for is that we believe that Jesus is the One that God has sent to save the earth.
That’s one of the reasons we have been encouraging each other to read the Gospels…so that we may know and love Jesus better. In the context of John 6 “believing” is a lot more than mental assent. Later in the same section Jesus says that those who follow Him must eat His flesh and drink His blood. I’m sure that Jesus is speaking metaphorically, but never the less He is implying a relationship with Him of great intimacy and service unto death. As baptism teaches us we must become one with Jesus in His death, as we go down into the water, and in His life, as we are raised to life through the waters of death!
So let’s make our primary focus in life to be one of getting to know Jesus better and through our relationship with Him to make Him known to others. There is no other work that is greater than this!
posted by Mountainview Church @ 11:00 AM
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Getting to know Jesus through the Gospels is only the beginning of the intimacy that he has ready for us. Through the second adam we are like new creations with spirits that have become alive and with this we have access to worship in spirit and in truth. Now that we have this ability to comune directly with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we can develop our intimate friendship with them. They are always ready to talk to us, we just have to learn how to listen. The bread from heaven is waiting for us, all we have to do is sit down and eat. Jesus said that he is standing at the door and he knocks, ready to enter and be with us. Many christians today do not have this intimate fellowship with the king because they dedicate more time to other things, worldly things. It is a weakness that we all have, that is why Paul the apostle said that he is quite happy to be weak, because it implies that he has to continuously come before Jesus to gain strength. And this increases their intimacy and friendship.
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