And why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Luke 6:46
Sounds so easy when you first decide to follow Jesus, doesn’t it?
Just believe and all else will follow.
Jesus gave us commands and we are to do our best to follow them.
We know some of them as they are easy, love your enemies,
forgive those who have harmed you, preach the gospel to name a few.
Jesus gave us many commands.
How do we follow all of them? What if we can’t. Well, we can’t on our own.
We need to make efforts to follow in His footsteps.
We need to carry our crosses, which is a hard thing to understand.
Carrying our cross is a metaphor of following Him
and accepting the hard things that come our way as we walk with Christ.
If we follow Jesus, we can also try as we may to follow how He walked
when He was on the Earth.
Jesus did what He saw the Father do:
Then answered Jesus and said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do:
for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. John 5:19
Jesus said what He heard the Father say:
For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me,
He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
And I know that His commandment is life everlasting:
whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.
John 12:49-50
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself:
but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. John 14:10
The more we allow the Holy Spirit to work in us and have free reign over our flesh, we, too, will be reflecting the Father and His Son Jesus the Christ
through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us,
because He hath given us of His Spirit. 1 John 4:13
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16
What beautiful thoughts.