How To Be A Successful Christian

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘His disciples asked Him privately, ’Why could we not cast it out?’ ” (Mark 9:28). […]  We can remain powerless forever, as the disciples were in this situation, by trying to do God’s work without concentrating on His power, and by following instead the ideas that we draw from our own nature. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him. When you are brought face to face with a difficult situation and nothing happens externally, you can still know that freedom and release will be given because of your continued concentration on Jesus Christ. Your duty in service and ministry is to see that there is nothing between Jesus and yourself. Is there anything between you and Jesus even now? If there is, you must get through it, not by ignoring it as an irritation, or by going up and over it, but by facing it and getting through it into the presence of Jesus Christ.’ CHAMBERS

 

What happens to us on the outside is not what is important as far as our new nature is concerned.  We are sure to face difficult times, loss, rejection, failures, hardships, illness, even death.  But how we live in spite of those troubles is completely dependent upon the level of our relationship with the Lord.  Have you ever been in one of those stores that sell notions?  I have always thought that was a strange description but perhaps not.  The store is filled with trinkets.  Things that you put on a shelf after you buy them and really don’t think much about them afterward .. except to dust them off from time to time.

 

Is that how you treat your relationship with Jesus?  If you do, you will not be happy with the result.  Your successful response to life is dependent on the quality of your relationship with the Lord.  If He is merely a “notion” sitting on a shelf, then you are in trouble in difficult times.  Galatians 5 describes the fruit of the Spirit which is evidenced in a Christian’s life when they are living by faith and walking by the Spirit.  The love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness will be evidenced in your life in spite of the hardship you face when your relationship with the Lord is strong … primary …

 

Joshua 1:8 says “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”  So what are you waiting for?

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)