purifying ourselves
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Pretending to Seek First

Seeking Jesus Christ is not necessarily church or ministry related activities. Including sermons, speaking them or hearing them, prayers, or giving money.

They all can be, for a time, but are not necessarily for all time. We know within our hearts if they are or not. Sometimes when we grow, we have to abandon certain things that at one time were for us but we’ve changed, the Lord has moved on and it’s time for us to adjust.

If we must convince ourselves or others that whatever churchy thing we are doing is how we are “seeking first the kingdom of heaven”…ITS NOT anymore. We can trick our mind all we want, it doesn’t mean it is true from a spiritual perspective.

If that’s our situation then we should stop it and start to seek him with no other motive, perhaps reach out to someone for brotherly or sisterly discipleship.

Seeking Jesus in sincerity is as wonderful 30 years into it as it is the moment we first become a Christian, go to church service, or get baptized. It never loses its power.

When we start to turn activities into tradition that we refuse to give up is when it becomes a bad thing in our lives. Not neutral, not a little bit good, but BAD.

And changing that situation is much more than controlling ourselves to have a positive attitude.

That’s often merely a mental trick that we play on ourselves, and on others who are watching.

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Hang With The “Quality” People

I hear a lot of self-help type speakers and pastors essentially telling people to only hang out with quality people. To spend time with winners and to avoid losers.

One problem with this is every one has a different view of who are the winners and losers. Another problem with this for Christians is that Jesus simply does not teach this and does not behave like this.

It’s a worldly business philosophy to only hang out with who you think are quality people. It is complicated and confusing to try to hang with the right people and avoid the wrong people.

Dear Christian, hang out with the poor, and give to them, teach them, if they won’t learn give anyhow.

Hang out with the negative people with the wrong attitude and gently correct them.

Hang out with the depressed and shine Gods light into them.

Hang out with the gossips and show them their error.

Being led of the Holy Spirit is all that is required of a Christian, it is so easy and peaceful if you’ve been shown how.

But, it absolutely will get us into trouble with those who can’t recognize the ways of God when they see him. It might even cause us to lose friends who think we are the losers and the low quality ones that we need to avoid. It’s ok, they did that to Jesus too, until they couldn’t avoid him anymore.

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Reacting to the Will of Jesus Christ

The only appropriate reaction of a Christian to the known will of Jesus Christ is obedience. He is not a dictator, but doing our own thing and assuming he will approve is not an option anymore than it was for his 12 disciples. He said to them “follow me” but he also rebuked them sternly when they needed it.

If we want to stay on a path of self-centeredness we must intentionally avoid Jesus. And vice a versa if we want to remain with Jesus we must learn to abandon self.

If you know his will drop everything, and obey him with urgency.

When a Christian brother or sister challenge us with teachings that say “this is his will, do this” or “this is not his will, we must stop it” explore deeply what they say and why they say it. Explore why they are saying it, determine their motives, sit down with them and find out.

Don’t just blow them off if it’s something no one else is saying, or if you disagree or if you just dislike them.

Jesus Christ deserves that we hear out our brothers and sisters and explore what Jesus might be saying through them. He is our only true king.

“Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient obeys.” – D. Bonhoeffer

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