It’s amazing to me how many different voices there are in the ‘Christian’ world vying for our attention.
Everyone has their own thoughts and interpretations. I think we can learn something from everyone. Whether it is something new, a better way of doing things, a different way of thinking, or just realizing we don’t agree with what we heard and it bolsters our own view.
The problem is that everyone has an opinion. That doesn’t mean everyone is right or wrong. God works in each of us in different ways, and what may be right for one person isn’t right for another.
We need to seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit each day, and ask that He leads us into truth.
Our relationship with the Father is a day by day lifestyle. What we know and understand today may be completely different from what we believed when we were younger. What we believe today will probably change in the future. God leads us into His truth in His timing, as we are ready and open to it.
Our goal is to daily seek God’s guidance through the Spirit, and seek His truth. We need to focus on Christ. To many of us want to put our focus on a man, a popular evangelist or pastor. Obviously we can learn from listening to others views and opinions, but when we focus on people we can get off track and confused very easily.
Everyone has a different opinion. You can listen to one person or group and hear what they think is the truth, then find another person or group who has a completely different take on the same subject.
The only way to get past all the different views and opinions is to focus on Christ. He will teach us and lead us into the truth. That isn’t to say we are all going to think and feel the same way on everything. God deals with us personally and in different ways. The problem is when we are shown something or lead in a particular way, we expect everyone to see it our way and believe the same thing.
It’s time we become what we say we are, followers of Christ. Stop being followers of men. Nothing wrong with listening and hearing others views, but take it as that. It is their view, it is not Gospel. Only Christ is the one to follow. Only Christ is to be our everything.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. – Jo 10:27 ESV
Before we can follow, we have to listen – before we can listen we have to hear.
A true disciple of Jesus Christ isn’t known by his/her opinions or views but by the reality of THE LIFE… the FACT of having died with Christ and risen to a new life. A life impossible to live for every natural man… a life in dependance and under the lead of God’s Spirit alone.
God made us all different and this is the cause for various opinions and views. Adding to this is our limited ability to see just everything gets filtered by the glasses of our perception… often dependent on something so subjective like our emotions.
No, unity in the Spirit wouldn’t be able to function on the “normal way”, this for sure… and so being ONE IN THE SPirit isn’t able if not having the precondition met first: Truly having died with Christ!
So forget about the claim “I’m a believer”, “I’m born-again”, “I’m spirit-filled” – the reality of the claim is proved by nothing else but the unity IN the Spirit when two of these are meating.
A life in the Spirit weans us from our self-centered dependency on our own views and opinions and though we’re still ourselves (as He has made us individually) we’re under the rule of His Spirit now. We no longer live but He lives in us – and by this reality in us we get united here on earth.
We no longer know each other after the flesh… but are bond together by the Spirit of God (2.Cor. 5:16)
The precondition is: Two (or more) dead and living IN Christ have to meet. There won’t be any true fellowship of the saints without this necessity.
This fellowship/unity isn’t something we have to focus on in any way… it’s just there… automatically where two or three are gathered IN HIS NAME!
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Superb! Thank you!!!
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