Whom Shall You Serve?
What a pleasant and beautiful night as I set here on the front porch, relaxing, listening to the sound of the evening and feeling a sense of the presence of the Lord.
It is so amazing to realize how much control we really have in choosing our attitudes, our mind set. That each day is fresh and we choose the path that we will walk. We choose to either walk in the ways of the Lord or we yield to the pull of the world and all that goes with it.
Fear, anxiety, depression, loneliness are not of the Lord. He has not given us a spirit of fear, of anger, of anxiety, or depression. It is part of the tactics of the enemy of our soul to try and convince us that we cannot walk in the ways of the Lord. We have bought into his tactic to often and it is time for us to begin to live in accordance to the word and the promises of the Lord.
God’s word is true! The Lord came to give us life and that more abundantly. That when we accepted the Lord. When we were born again we where given new life, a new beginning and we are in the process, actually a continuing process of being re-created, molded and conformed to the Lord. We have been set free, the chains of the enemy have been broken and now we need to live and walk in the new life that the Lord has given us.
In Christ we have the authority and the power to walk in His ways and we need to begin living like He is indeed Lord. That we can do the things that He has set before us to do.
I am not talking about a name it and claim it theology. I am talking about living in the reality of that which was accomplished upon the Cross. That we serve a risen Lord, who sits at the right hand of the Father. That He is our advocate and He has made a way for us to come into the very presence of our Father.
Yes we go through trials, through battles, through temptations but at the same time we are given choices. We choose to either yield to the Lord or to the tactics of the enemy. There is action on our part. We have to choose to allow Him to be Lord of our life, not just a little bit of it, but to be Lord of our whole being.
We serve a Father who loves us, who cares for us but who also disciplines us because He loves us. He is a Father who cares, and though the dealings of the Lord are hard at times, the end result is that we are made stronger in the Lord so that we can walk in confidence with the Lord, knowing that He will fulfill all that He has spoken to us. His word is Yes and Amen!
He is calling us into intimacy with Him, to a place of hearing and walking with Him. He is restoring us. Bringing us back to that place of intimacy with Him. That He is breathing new life into us, those coals in our heart that were about to go out, the breath of the Lord breathed on them, and the embers were ignited by His spirit and consumed us with His presence and He is drawing us day by day into a closer walk with Him, into a place of knowing Him, not just about Him. To a place that His word becomes alive and real to us.
Being brought to a place of sharing that life changing power of the Lord with others, to be a light in a time of darkness, to share the hope of the Christ within. To let others know, that we have hope, we have peace, that we can rest, that even in the darkness of the days, the Lord is rasing up a standard, a people who are willing to be called by His name, who will walk in unity. Who will walk in the Spirit. Side by side, in rank, taking on the enemy of our soul and declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord.
We are being called each day to choose that path that we want to walk. Let us choose to walk in the ways of the Lord, let us choose to serve Him with our whole being and put the enemy on notice that He is not welcome here anymore.
That we can say, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
Till later,
Paul