Don’t Just Do Good!

I have often sought to use my faith so that I would have something to share with others.  I would use faith to produce a miracle, get a prophetic word, obtain some wisdom.  For some, this may seem like a great thing, I feel it is less than “great”.

I now believe that using my faith for such things is good and at times, very good.  But the greatest thing that I can use my faith for is having a relationship with God that is unending.  I know that many think this impossible.  But try and have faith for it.  Try to have faith to live a life always abiding, always connected to the Father.

 

When we want to press on others what kind of person Jesus was, we often bring forth the truth that Jesus did nothing unless He saw the Father doing it.  We stress that connection of the man Christ Jesus and God.  Yet we often neglect this Christ like call when seeking a calling for ourselves.  We want the miracles, signs and wonders but somehow think the burden of unions with God just that, a burden. 

We can do a great many good works in life, but how many of them are in line with the will of the Lord?  We can justify our virtues, our giving and our sacrifice as making them worthy apart from the will of God, but are they truly.  What if “not doing God’s will” was just the same as “doing all kinds of good, but not doing God’s will”?  I have been told hundred’s of times that you don’t need to seek the will of the Lord if it is written in the Bible to do. 

I have discovered that what others mean by this is that they feel you do not need to seek God’s will to do what they want you to do.  If you pray but they are driven by missions, you should do missions.  If you do missions but they promote right doctrine, if they serve the poor but you encourage the wealthy….

Seeing the Father and doing what you see Him doing is your self identity.  Do you know who you were created to be and do?  The Father knows and takes the time to communicate that to you.  The whole of a personal relationship with God rest on seeing our Father leading us.  To be whole, complete, secure; you will need to develop the faith to do what God is calling you to do.  You vision must be more upon the Father than focused on the needs and desires of man or the church.  By doing the will of the Father you release His kingdom in heaven upon the earth.  It matters!