2 fear God is to please Him

Today I am pondering a lot, questions about why I do what I do, and other such deep concepts of life.  Often I forget that Jesus died and paid the price for all of me.  So now my life is His, I am no longer my own. 
Well this same Jesus is the almight God of the universe with all authority.  It is He who will judge me and it is by His life, His blood, His resurrection power and the gift of His Spirit, that I can live and exist and know for sure where my eternity is.  So this Jesus holds my life, my very existemce in His hand.

I am called to serve Him, but often I instead seem to try and keep people happy.  I is an ongoing problem that we seem to have as people.  We get off track from serving God and instead try to keep people happy.  When I read the Bible I do not hear about a calling to keep people happy.  Instead I hear of a unyielding calling to follow God through a relationship with Jesus Christ.  This is to be a 100% sold out life style choice.  I need to be first and foremost a follower of Jesus.  The problem we often have is we then say second I will be the husband I am supposed to be, third I will be the father I am supposed to be, fourth I will serve in the Church, fifth I will be a good employee, etc....   


This thinking breeds a tendency to begin to organize our time and commitments based on this list.  Yet because of the realities of life it often gets turned upside down.  Today I am more and more convinced that it is a broken model and not a good instruction about what it is to be like living as a Christian. Instead I have decided to take a different road.  Here is the model I am encouraging you to follow.


As I know God more I learn to fear God more, as I love God more I learn to worship God more, as I understand God more I obey God more.  The source of this learning and growth must come from a healthy connection to the Body of Christ through the learning of His Word.  As we are established in this Faith we are called to live in it fully, nothing held back, "all to Jesus I surrender" is what the old hymn says.  This is what my life needs to be based in, 100% for Jesus.  So when I love and serve my wife I need to do so fully in obedience to Jesus.  When I interact with my kids I need to do so fully in obedience to Jesus.  When I go to serve at Church or at my workplace or with my friends or whatever I do I need to do all things through 100% obedience and submission to Jesus.


So the question we need to guide us is this "Is my life, my choices, my time, my behavior, honoring to Jesus, is it in obedience to His Word?"  The concept is that I need to know that I am honoring the God of the universe and if people are not too happy with me at times, then that is ok.  If God is ok with me, then I need to feel ok with things as well.


So fear and obey God and Him alone, follow His Word and if people are not happy then too bad for them.


Preacherman