My Days with Christ Jesus

Day 292

October 19

"But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." -Joshua 22:5

Christian are to love God, to walk with Him, to keep His commandments, to cleave to Him and to serve Him with all of our heart and soul.

The first thing God has asked us to do is, to love Him with all of our heart and soul. Jesus said that this is the greatest commandment, and we believe Him the top priority of believers is loving God above all else... because with this act  all things will follow, walking with Him will become easy... no rather enjoyable, keeping His Word, cleaving unto Him and serving Him would not just be easy but importantly it would be our joy to do so... because we love Him. That is why Joshua or should i say God said that we should love Him first before He said the rest.

The second thing is, to walk in all His ways... which means to do His ways, His will and command... to obey God. We can't say we love God and not do the things He wants us to do, this is what Jesus said in the Scripture if you love me, do my commandments... to love is to obey the person you love, and through out the Scripture that point is highly emphasize. That is why the first point was to love God because the 2nd would be easy.

The third thing is that, keeping God's Word would mean the Word is in you... your keeping it, and being able to uphold it means you are consistently doing the Word, living the Word of God out loud in the world. If you have already obeyed God and have applied His Word, command in your daily life then... you are keeping His Word well.

Doing such things, the fourth point is also being accomplish... 'to cleave unto Him.' To hold/stick unto God, to trust Him and resist being separated from Him. You have keep His Word everyday because not only that you trust Him but also because you don't want to be separated from Him, ...we know that distance, not being able to spend time or talk to someone you were close before would end up in separated and high chance of having a bad relationship... and when we love, if truly love someone we wouldn't want that to happen... it is given you will cleave to that person, in this case to God... if we truly love Him we'll do that... not for God's good but in everything God meant it for our good. We are to trust and rely on Him. For us not to be separated from Him, we are to please Him for us to continue being with Him and this requires faith, without such it is impossible to please God.

The last but not the least, serving the Lord... not that He needs anything from us, rather the other way around. We are to please Him for our own good... and when we please God thru our faith He will give His best for us and what's best for us is, God Himself. We are to act out our faith in order for God to give Himself to us, our body us a living sacrifice- it is no longer i who lives in me but rather Christ lives in me. God is asking us to serve Him for our own good because that is the only way He can give Himself to us, and He is what's best for us... Him alone.

The main point of all these is that in order for God to give Himself to us we are to do these 5 things / point I've mentioned... but of course in His grace and with His help because clearly all this are not easy to deal with because we are fallen creatures, we sin and have fall short of God's glory. But by the guidance of the Holy Spirit and by God's grace we are saved thru our faith in Jesus Christ. Just rely and trust Jesus, focus on Him and God will do the rest.

To God be the glory!