Jesus said in Luke 9:23 "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Is this the surrender to Christ that you have made or is it something different, a facsimile maybe? Allow me to share some thoughts from my friend Dr. A.W. Tozer again with you. He said, "I have long believed that a man who spurns the Christian faith outright is more respected before God and the heavenly powers than the man who pretends to religion but refuses to come under its total domination. The first is an overt enemy, the second a false friend. It is the later who will be spued out of the mouth of Christ, and the reason is not hard to understand. Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises."
I am sure we have all had the experience of having a "false friend" someone who we trusted and believed in only to discover in our hour of need that they were not what they professed to be. Jesus had them as well. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said that on that final day the day of judgement he said that many would come to him saying "Lord,Lord" but his response would be "I never knew you".
False friends, not the position you or I want to be in these last days. Jesus is coming for his bride a bride without spot or wrinkle. In the verse I quoted from Luke 9:23 Jesus said "If anyone would.." That clearly teaches us that there is a choice involved here. We need to decide whose friend we really want to be, the friend of Jesus or a friend to this world. It is the choice that only YOU can make. I hope you chose Jesus!
Pastor Sheldon
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment