FOLLOW ME

This is something I started the day before
yesterday after reading an "Utmost"; a work
in progress to be sure but encouraged by
whatI learned from The Truth Project yester-
day afternoon I decided to finish it with a
solid Amen. And I did. Enjoy!
John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one
and only Son, so whoever believes in Him shall
not perish but have eternal life.

FOLLOW ME

In the distance do you hear...
The voice of God in your ear?
Can you see up on the horizon...
The Shepherd Jesus leading you to Heaven?

In the center of your storm...
Does the hand of God reach into your very core?
Do you find His love compelling you to be weak and lean on...
The Savior Jesus who is none other than God's sovereign Son?

In the distance do you remember...
A promise from God that secures your eternal future?
Can your hear Our Father calling The Son whom He sent...
The Servant Jesus who would teach you to go where He went?

In the center of your storm...

Does holy council from God bring you great comfort?
Do you know God is calling you to be holy as He is holy...
The Spirit Jesus sent will guide you in Truth and set you free?

Truly free.
Amen.

JEFFree!
09.21.09

God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world,
but to save the world through Him. John 3:17

MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST September 19

“Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations.”
Luke 22:28

It is true that Jesus Christ is with us in our temptations, but are we going with Him in His temptations? Many of us cease to go with Jesus from the moment we have an experience of what He can do. Watch when God shifts your circumstances, and see whether you are going with Jesus, or siding with the world, the flesh and the devil. We wear His badge, but are we going with Him? "From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him."
The temptations of Jesus continued throughout His earthly life, and they will continue throughout the life of the Son of God in us. Are we going with Jesus in the life we are living now?

We have the idea that we ought to shield our selves from some of the things God brings round us. Never! God engineers circumstances and what ever they may be like we have to see that we face them while abiding continually with Him in His temptations. They are His temptations, not temptations to us, but temptations to the life of the Son of God in us. The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you?

Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, "Follow Me."

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http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Pollock <jeffree7@gmail.com>
To: Jeffree Pollock <jepollock77@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:21:20 -0600
Subject: FOLLOW ME

FOLLOW ME
In the distance do you hear,
The voice of God in your ear?
Can you see out on the horizon,
The Shepherd leading you to Heaven?

In the center of your daily storms,
Does the hand of God calm your very core?
Do you feel His love coaxing you to walk on?
The Savior is none other than God's only Son.

September 20

THE DIVINE RULE OF LIFE

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven
is perfect.

Matthew 5:48
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=mt+5:48&sr=1

Our Lord's exhortation in these verses is to be generous in our behaviour to all men. In the spiritual life beware of walking according to natural affinities. Everyone has natural affinities; some people we like and others we do not like. We must never let those likes and dislikes rule in our Christian life. "If we walk in the light as God is in the light," God will give us communion with people for whom we have no natural affinity.

The Example Our Lord gives us is not that of a good man, or even of a good Christian, but of God Himself. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect," show to the other man what God has shown to you; and God will give us ample opportunities in actual life to prove whether we are perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect.
To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. "That ye love one another; as I have loved you . . ."

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly. The secret of a Christian is that the supernatural is made natural in him by the grace of God, and the experience of this works out in the practical details of life, not in times of communion with God. When we come in contact with things that create a buzz, we find to our amazement that we have power to keep wonderfully poised in the centre of it all.

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http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php