If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.- John 13:17 (NASB)
Remember, Jesus taught us how to be ‘Blessed’ in Matthew 5. If we are blessed it means we are ‘Happy’ and who doesn’t want to be Happy these days of conflict and crisis. We might say “we’re in a world of trouble.” Consider some of the ideas people make trying to solve the serious human condition of hate. The “know these things” Jesus references are the things that lead us to serve others in the name of our Lord Jesus. In his book “My Utmost for His Highest” Oswald Chambers says, “If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters … you have to get out through the harbor bar into the great deeps of God and begin to have spiritual discernment.” Our God allows and promises us times of crisis – for our benefit. The world continues to reject God, continues to create the chaos. Great acts of self-sacrifice signaling our “virtues” are not what God wants. It is a great deal better to fulfil the purpose of God in our lives by seeking and discerning His will than practice counterfeit obedience trying to align with current trends.
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