THE NARROW ROAD

Whenever I read the word of God, I will write what I got out of it and what the Holy Spirit has revealed to me. I want to share with you something I wrote last year during my reading/studying.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I was reading Matthews chap. 6 and it was so helpful. All I can do is seek the Kingdom of God and its righteousness and all will be added unto me. Even the date of my death is in his hands and it’s a wonderful place to be. I can take comfort in knowing that.

I can not care about the cares of the world and put God first at the same time because it is contradicting. What God want is not what the world want so if I love what the world has to offer me, than I will go against God’s offer which is perfectly made for me.

Chap. 7 taught me that there are only two roads, one that lead to heaven and one that leads to hell. The road to hell is considered wide because there is no conscious. If I enter it, it would be due to lust governing me (being a slave to sin). I hear it, I listen to it, and I obey it without stopping. I do what I feel is right and what I feel is right is what is comfortable and feels good to me.

The road to heaven is best described like a drug addict and the drug is sin. When I became saved my desire was to get well, and that means that I will have to go through pain because my body wants what it is craving. It will keep nagging and nagging at me until I feed it. I will have no peace because my flesh is fighting hard but it must be put to death.

This is why the road to heaven is narrow. The rules are strict and strictly enforced. The only comfort I can receive is the comfort in knowing that I am fighting to keep my close relationship with God and for my place/reward in heaven. There is a reward waiting for me when I over come the temptations in this life. Deny the flesh. Being reassured that my life is in Jesus and in the Father’s hands every step of the way! Focusing my mind on Christ and the will of God will lead me to healing.

Thanks be to God that He gave me a comforter who is the Holy Spirit. He came with the mind of Christ. Christ lived a perfect life on earth and it is the job of the Holy Spirit to teach me the same thing. To think like Christ, live like Christ, Love like Christ. It is my job to tap into the Holy Spirit allowing Him to do His job in me. The way to do that is to give up my will and thinking and replace it with God’s will and thinking.

The way this works can be compared to being a student in school. I have the text book but it’s still not enough to know how to be a doctor or a lawyer. I need a teacher to instruct me and teach me what the text book is saying. The teacher gives me homework to study at home. It is up to me to apply the text book by studying and practicing it. If I study, I will know it. If I apply myself I will be good at it. It was the teacher that gave me the understanding of the text book and showed me what to do. But, I have to do the work. So that means I have to read his word and let the Holy Spirit teach me what God’s word is saying to me. Once I learn what to do I can move on with confidence knowing that God is with me and teaching me and instructing me always and that I can do exactly what the word says.

Living a Christ like life is not easy because I am like drug addicts, my body want the opposite of what God wants. So I have a choice, to give into the nagging of sin, or to kill it by not giving into what it wants.

Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all his righteousness and all will be added onto my life. I must live for pleasing God with no worries about what tomorrow will bring or what I am going to eat or where I’m going to work. God want me to depend on Him for everything. God wants me to know that the things I have came from no one else but God. The world is ignorant and thinks that they made it happen when it was God who did it all. He wants me to be like the sparrow that never worries about where their food is coming from for they have faith that they will eat everyday.

Again it’s not easy it’s a learned behavior but I can’t learn it if my focus is not on God. Also I must be at the point were I will take the good with the bad, the bitter with the sweet that God has coming for me for all that comes from God is good and for his glory. I am living on God’s grace (time) that is my lifeline.

 Everything is in His and the Father’s hand. And He has the reward waiting for me in Heaven when I get there.