Some of us are so used to comfort that it becomes a crotch that hinders obedience. I’m not saying God is calling you to poverty, I’m saying don’t let comfort stop you from purpose. I’m saying that if God sends you with nothing, it’s because He has already provided everything as He did with the disciples.
Leaving everything to follow Jesus is not easy. I know that for a fact. I left all to follow Jesus at 22 and I almost cried myself to sickness. I was so terrified that I couldn’t tell my family what I was actually going to do. I resigned my job, left my country and started on the journey with Jesus with so much complains, tantrums and tears.
I am a firm believer in the power that lies in the tongue. First, because the Bible says so but also because I have found it to be true in my life on various accounts. Every word you speak is powerful enough to change your life. Now we know that the word of God has power on its own, how much more power will be evident if the word is what proceeds out of your mouth? So from time to time, we will pick a scripture and make it our confession of faith and courage for that season.
My prayer for you is that you will not start something and drop it halfway, no matter the opposition that comes your way, you will hang on till the end.
Beloved, tough times doesn’t discredit the faithfulness of God. Just like Jesus, trust God’s nature over your feelings. Don’t hesitate to hand over everything that you are to Him. He is faithful and can be trusted. So trust Him with that business, that child, that childlessness, that hurt, that loneliness, that heartbreak, that provision, accommodation and sustenance. He is still faithful and will always be.
We see through the study of scripture that God could not look upon Jesus because He had carried upon himself the sins of the world, and the Holy One cannot see evil. He cannot behold sin with His eyes. So He looked away from the sin, but not from The Son.
Jesus knew that everything He went through was in the plan. Every single detail was prophesied before His arrival. God had worked out every detail of His life to the letter and He was just living it out. But those who put Him on the cross had another thing coming.
Enduring the cross is not something that’s only left for Jesus. It is the reality for every Christian. The cross may look like tribulations, trials and difficulties of life but it is primarily the place where your flesh dies. Where you trade all you are for all of God to be made manifest in and through you.
“Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men….
So imagine with me for a moment that Jesus had decided to be disobedient. Imagine that He decided to walk away. What would have happened to us? Because what we may not know is that our obedience may be tied to somebody’s deliverance.
