As I started to read this today, I remembered how much God has spoken to me through it as I have read this devotional for getting close to 10 years. This devotional speaks to all of us who claim Christianity; all of us have been and will be continually called to trust God on levels we are not comfortable with. The level of trust is directly related to our level of faith; as our faith grows so will we be called to trust him with greater things; trust him where it stretches and grows our faith. Each of you have experienced these tests of our faith, and when obedient in them, he has built your testimony to him, for you to encourage others how he provided for you. Your life as a disciple is a loving act of continual obedience.
This also describes the glimpse of understanding of God’s sovereignty. The peace that Jesus described in John 14:27 was the gift of the Holy Spirit that God will give to believers. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. That gift is God living inside of you; that gift is an understanding that he is guiding you through life and no matter where free-will lets you stray, he is still ultimately in control. Our limited minds cannot comprehend the complexities of free-will intertwined with God’s sovereignty. Let the peace that the world does not understand compel you into a life of obedience continually stretched in order to obtain a deeper relationship with the One who created and sustains your very life and everything in it.
EXPERIENCING GOD DAILY DEVOTIONAL by Henry Blackaby
Christ Must Reorient You
Daily Devotional for Friday, March 13th, 2015
When He had gone a little farther from there, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending their nets. And immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after Him. Mark 1:19-20
We have a natural tendency to find our “comfort zone” and then position ourselves firmly in place. If you are in a situation or lifestyle where you are perfectly capable of handling everything, you have stopped growing in your understanding of God. God’s desire is to take you from where you are to where He wants you to be. You will always be one step of obedience away from the next truth God wants you to learn about Him. You may experience a restlessness whereby you sense that there is far more you should be learning and experiencing about the Father. At times, this will mean that you should move to a new location or take a new job. It could indicate that you need a deeper dimension added to your prayer life. Perhaps you need to trust God to a degree you never have before.
The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ. Abraham was seventy-five years old when God gave him his major life assignment. These men had to disrupt their comfortable routine in order to reach new heights in their relationship with their Lord. Likewise, in order to experience God to the degree He wants you to, there will be adjustments He will ask of you. Are you prepared for Christ to reveal Himself to you in dimensions that will change your life? Are you willing to abandon that which makes you comfortable?
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