Being a possession of God is one of the greatest joys we have as believers in Jesus
Christ. Apostle Paul understood this that was why we saw him repeatedly refer
to himself as a ‘bond-servant’ of God. A bond-servant has no life of his own. In
fact the life he lives is by the leave of his master. All he owns or acquires
whilst in service to the master belong to the master. When a bond-servant decides
to leave the employ of his master, he leaves behind all he has acquired. As
disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to be His bond-servants (robots), people
that are sold-out to God; not just mouthing “it’s all about God” but actually
living the fact that it is truly about God and not them. If I may ask you, the
personal visions and ‘manifestos’ you have written for yourself for this year,
by whose leave did you write them? Did you finish writing them and presented
them to God to bless? Imagine you have a robot, and it comes to you with what
it desires to be doing, how would you react? If truly you are a bond-servant,
only the Master can write and give such instructions. Besides God will not give
you a detailed instruction for the year so that you will not get cocky and run
from His presence. The Scriptures tells us: “Your
word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path” (Psalm 119:105). This
means God will reveal His intentions to us as we walk daily with Him. If His
word which is a lamp for our feet can light the whole journey, we may not
necessarily need His guidance along the way. Thus, God desires to counsel and
guide us every inch of the way. The Bible equally tells us that we are clay
jars carrying the magnificent Spirit of God and not the other way round. It then
follows that not only are we possessed by Him, we must look to Him for
instructions and directions. Throughout Scriptures we have seen that those that
look to God for instructions and directions never failed and they went on to be
vessels through which God displayed His extraordinary powers. Friend, as His
coming draws near, God desires that we must recognize this fact that we are His
to be used as He wills. Jesus Christ reiterated this when he said “For I have come down from heaven not to do
My will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 6:38) and “I assure you: the Son is not able to do
anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the
Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way” (John 5:19).
There is so much the Lord desires to do in and through us only when we totally
surrender our will to Him can He truly accomplish the feats in and through us.
God bless you.
"When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; Walk [habitually] before Me [with integrity, knowing that you are always in My presence], and be blameless and complete [in obedience to Me]" (Genesis 17:1, AMP). A while back, I overheard a conversation between two young men; both were wondering how a person can be and remain holy in a world that daily encourages you to exhibit and enjoy every self-indulgent pleasure one desires. Of course, they knew the Scripture in Psalm 119:9-11, which describes how a young man can keep his way pure, but they feel it is increasingly becoming difficult to discern the way of the Lord from the world system. To them, many Pastors and children of God have been won over by the kingdom of darkness to subvert the principles of God as written in the Bible. They were not wrong, in light of some of the teaching coming from the pulpits! The above ...
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