OUR GOD ORDAINED PATHWAYS!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

FRIDAY APRIL 16, 2021.

SUBJECT: OUR GOD ORDAINED PATHWAYS! 

Memory verse: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14 vs 6.)

READ: Psalm 16 vs 2; 7 - 9; 11:

16:2: O my soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my LORD, my goodness is nothing apart from You.”

16:7: I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons,

16:8: I have set the LORD always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

16:9: Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will rest in hope.

16:11; You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

INTIMATION:

God has ordained our pathways. God, from the beginning, has respectively destined us, or set us apart respectively for a particular purpose or purposes, and particular ways to function. Identifying that God ordained pathway for you ensures your leading a glorious, victorious, pleasurable, joyous, and stress-free life, which was predetermined by God—our Loving Father.

Since God has preplanned all things concerning us, it is therefore given, and realistic that all keys to our preordained pathways are with Him. In our memory verse, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life...." Three principal things are in Him; ‘the way,’ ‘the truth,’ and ‘the life.’ Therefore, outside of Jesus you are in the wrong way, you can’t discover the truth, and you have no life. 

Jesus, as the way, is our path to the Father. He is one with the Father, and the same with the Father. Following Jesus is knowing the way of the Father. No one has seen the Father, and no one can see Him. But Jesus Christ came to reveal the Father to us. Observing the ways of Jesus is tantamount to observing the ways of the Father, because He is the same with the Father. Everything you need is in Him, and without Him you can do nothing (John 15 vs 5). He is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1 vs 15) and the exact representation of God. Jesus is not only equal to God (Philippians 2 vs 6), He is God (John 10 vs 30 & 38). 

As the truth, He is the reality of all God’s promises. He not only reflects God, but He reveals God to us (John 1 vs 18; 14 vs 9). Jesus said these of Himself, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner" (John 5 vs 19). "I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgement is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me" (John 5 vs 30). "....When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as the Father taught Me, I speak these things" (John 8 vs 28).

As the Life, He joins His divine life to ours, both now and eternally. He is supreme over all creation (Colossians 1 vs 15), and has all priority and authority. He came from heaven, not the dust of the earth (First Corinthians 15 vs 47), and He is Lord over all (Romans 9 vs 5; 10 vs 11 - 13). He is, in truth, the only living way to the Father.

Now Jesus has come, and has gone back to the Father, to come again for the final union in marriage with His people; ‘the marriage of the Lamb’ (Revelation 19 vs 7 & 9). While He is away, He has left with us the instructions on what to do, and also has given us an Helper, just to help us to occupy until He comes (Luke 19 vs 13). The instructions are in the Holy Book—the Bible, and our Helper is the Holy Spirit. Outside of these two, you will never discover the way.

The Book of instruction—the Bible tells us that the starting point is embracing Jesus and declaring Him as Savior and Lord  over our life. When you do this, He will help you to ensure that all other things would fall in pleasant places if you follow His instructions (Psalm 16 vs 6). 

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for the gift of Your only begotten Son Jesus Christ. Jesus, I confess, with my whole heart, that You are my Savior; that You died for me on the cross to pay the wages of my sin. Thank You for that supreme sacrifice. I wholeheartedly declare you as my Lord and Savior. You are the way, the truth, and the life. And in You I live, move, and have my being, in Jesus matchless name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!