FAITH CAPSULE: Mediate on the word to work and walk in line for His glory.
Matthew 7
Jesus stated in Matthew 7:22-23, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Getting work done in His name for His name without walking in His ways will get no one to be recognized by Jesus when it matters the most.
Who are you? Can you honestly question and answer to yourself who you are?Jesus once asked His disciples, saying to them “who do men say that I am” (Mark 8:27) It is not that it matters to Jesus who the people say He was or He is today. However, it is glaring by virtue of His walk, where He sat and what He stood for, He is the King of kings; the Lord of lords.
Does your life reflect Christ? Are you a bible which people can read? Is the word of God rooted in you? Man can be deceived but God cannot be deceived. It is possible for man to be well decorated before man but naked and empty before God. Forget about your titles, it is how you engage God’s task for you that matters before God.
In life, your walk, where you sit and what you stand will answer to the question about who you are.
It is written, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.” (Psalm 1:1)
Once the psalmist attempted to protest his innocence by stating, “Vindicate me, O Lord, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the Lord; I shall not slip. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth. I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, Nor will I go in with hypocrites.” (Psalm 26:1-4)
It is the walk we walk that identifies us before God because it is what defines who we are. It is important for us to know it that the walk we walk also marks us for God’s blessing. It is written, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.” (Psalm 1:1) The only way to redirect our walk before God is to constantly and consistently engage ourselves in the word of God by meditating His word. The word admonished us that there is delight in the law when meditating in the word is in place day and night. (Psalm 1:2) Mediate on the word to work and walk in line for His glory.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to miss His way where it matters.