Is Jesus the Lord of your life or do you just think He is? As I go through different challenges in my own walk with God there are times that I feel the need to read those letters in RED, the words of the Lord Jesus. Recently, as I opened my Bible, it opened to Matthew 7, and the words there made me really self-evaluate my relationship with Him. It is written in *Matthew 7:22 Many will say to Me on that day [when I judge them], ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and driven out demons in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them publicly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me [you are banished from My presence], you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].’* There are lists in the Bible that clarify what “practicing lawlessness” is all about written in, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Ephesians 5:4-5, and as we look around our congregations we find there are many so-called “Christians” who live in the manners described there. According to Matthew, there are many that are doing work for someone that doesn’t know them. For me, I feel the need to regularly evaluate my life as to why I do what I do, and I pray about the words spoken by Paul in *Philippians 2:12…continue to work out your salvation [that is, cultivate it, bring it to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity] with awe-inspired fear and trembling [using serious caution and critical self-evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ]. 13 For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.* I like what Charles Spurgeon said, “O, there is nothing that can so advantage you, nothing can so prosper you, so assist you, so make you walk towards heaven rapidly, so keep your heads upwards toward the sky, and your eyes radiant with glory, like the imitation of Jesus Christ. It is when, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you are enabled to walk with Jesus in his very footsteps, and tread in his ways, you are most happy and you are most known to be sons and daughters of God. For your sake, Christ, I say, be like Christ. To draw him nearer to me, and myself nearer to him is the innermost longing of my soul.” Brethren, we all need to make a conscious decision who Jesus is to each of us, is He Lord of your life or is He just Jesus, He can’t be both. I confess and believe that Jesus is Lord, who else is with me? In Christ Love, douglas. HE>i. pastord.blog

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