Let’s paint a scenario of a five-year-old girl walking home with her Father from the hair salon. Any time the girl walks away from the path that leads home, her Father immediately guides her back on the path that leads home, no matter the plans she has on her mind, her path must be with her Father’s—home.
.jpeg)
I once wrote about why we should not grow up. The reason is that when we were kids, our parents guided us throughout our lives even when it didn’t make any sense to us. Any plan we had must align with theirs, like not skipping school. But as we grew, we started seeing the sense as to why certain decisions were made, which was in our favour.
The whole reason for all this was for us to switch from depending
on our parents to depending on God as our Father. We had learnt how to depend
on our parents; they provided all our needs: food, clothing, shelter and more.
All we had to do was just be a Son or Daughter carrying out our
responsibilities as a child in the house. This wasn’t a condition to be fed or
to get any of our needs met, it was just being part of a family. God expected
us to get the whole idea, but we decided to move from having parents to
becoming orphans, in the name of being independent as adults. This wasn’t God’s
plan.
Proverbs 19:21 says, “There are many plans in a man’s heart,
nevertheless the LORD’s counsel—that will stand.” What this means is that He is
our new parent, and no matter what we plan, it is His purpose for us that will
prevail because beyond what our earthly parents knew, God our Father made us
and knows the exact reason why we were made.
Now, coming to Jesus, He spoke on the cost of being His disciple.
He said in Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he
cannot be My disciple.” This wasn’t Jesus being mean, what He meant was that to
be His disciple was to hand over your life to Him to lead and direct. In other
words, He decides the outcome of our lives; this sounds just like God because
only God’s purpose prevails.
Jesus is God one hundred per cent, so He is teaching us how to
trust in Him and to understand that whatever He asks of us will always be in
line with the purpose of our creation. Therefore, He must always come first
before anything else. It is not a matter of compulsion, because He gave us the
condition to becoming His disciple, something we have the freedom to think
things through before we give an answer.
This is in line with what He said earlier in Luke 9:62, which
says, “No one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for
the kingdom of God.” because He gave you the freedom to think things through.
All He wants is our heart; that is our devotion, commitment, and life. Thus, we
always put Him first before anything else, laying down our lives for Him to
lead. Entrusting everything we go through into His hands; our needs,
protection, health, everything.
If we trusted our parents with our lives, why can’t we do the same
with Jesus? We always put our family first before anything else when we were
kids, why can’t we do the same with our Lord Jesus? So, trust Jesus, be His disciple,
and manifest the true purpose of your creation here on earth.
Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t? Pray out
loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I
believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I
receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations—you’re
born again, and you are now brand new!
Log on next time.
For prayers and comments, send them to the comment section
below.
GOD BLESS YOU.
PLEASE LIKE AND FOLLOW MY BLOG
Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are obtained from the New King James Version (NKJV)
No comments:
Post a Comment