Following THE Leader

Friday
January 8, 2009

Oh God, that you would create a clean heart and a right spirit within me!!!
(Psa 51:10)


NASB:
Jam 1:21-25
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and {all} that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
for {once} he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the {law} of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

I was this man most of the year, last year. You know, the one who heard, but didn't really "act" on what I heard. Sometimes I didn't even hear. I was too caught up in my own petty problems and the anguish of hurts that had fallen upon me. Feeling sorry for myself, mostly. Geesh.
I did, look into that mirror, and then turned and forgot who I was...and "Who's" I was.

What makes us so caught up in life's every day hub-bub, that we allow ourselves to neglect the power within us as Christians, that is capable of making a complete and total turn-around difference in this world? The power of CHRIST is IN me. How could I forget that? Why in the world would I have neglected His gentle nudges to ACT when I saw a need? Why would I neglect His tugging at my heart's door to come sit with Him, and be FILLED? WHY in the world would we, as Christians, "NOT" go to The ONE who can make it ALL better, each and every day? How pitiful the condition of the human heart.

I'm so glad that God has chosen to wake me up. I am glad that I can still hear His voice. The ONLY way to hear His voice-is to desire to, in the first place. Secondly, SEEK Him, while He "still may be found" (Isa. 55:6).

God does promise us that we can find Him, if we will just SEEK to- whole-heartedly.

The verses ABOUND in that fact...SEARCH THEM OUT for yourselves...see how many verses you can find on "seeking God." So many promises to be fulfilled, at our fingertips and all at our own asking.

James says we "have not, because we ASK NOT. (James 4:2)

What an awesome God.

What a Provider.

What a Leader.

Join me in Following the Leader in 2010!!!!!!!!!

Mean business before God, and He will do business with YOU!