Do You Now Believe?

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“ ‘By this we believe  .’ Jesus answered them, ‘Do you now believe?’ ” (John 16:30–31).
 
“Now we believe ” But Jesus asks, “Do you  ? Indeed the hour is coming  that you  will leave Me alone” (16:31–32). Many Christian workers have left Jesus Christ alone and yet tried to serve Him out of a sense of duty, or because they sense a need as a result of their own lack of faith.

The reason for this is actually the absence of the victorious resurrection life of Jesus in your life. Our soul has gotten out of intimate contact with God by leaning on our own religious or common-sense understanding (see Proverbs 3:5–6).

This is not deliberate sin, but once a person realizes how he has hindered his understanding of Jesus Christ, and caused uncertainties, sorrows, and difficulties for himself, it is with shame and remorse that he has to return. 
The devestating 6.3 magnitude earth-quake in Christchurch, New Zealand yesterday was pre-warned by Jesus in (Luke 21:11) as happenings in diverse places, yet we turn to earthly counseling and scientific data to make sense of it all.

We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus on a much deeper level than we do now to fully understand whats happening to the world around us.  We should start and get in the habit of continually seeking His counsel on everything, instead of seeking man's solutions and making our own decisions and then asking Him to bless them.

If we do something simply out of a sense of duty, we are trying to live up to a standard that competes with Jesus Christ.  We become a prideful, arrogant person, thinking we know what to do in every situation. We have to put our sense of duty on the throne of our life, instead of enthroning the resurrection life of Jesus.
We are not told to “walk in the light” of our conscience or in the light of a sense of duty, but to “walk in the light as He is in the light ” (1 John 1:7).

When we do something out of a sense of duty, it is easy to explain the reasons for our actions to others. But when we do something out of obedience to the Lord, there can be no other explanation—just obedience.  And "His light" will guide your understanding.

Ia manuia,

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