by Ps Jeyakumar Isaiah
Hello and welcome back. We hope you’re having a great day and enjoying spending time in God’s word, meditating on it and walking with the Lord. We are called to a life of joy as we journey on with the Lord Jesus. We have been exploring this topic – a normal Christian and what are the different aspect of a normal Christian life. Today, we see that a normal Christian life is a life of intimacy with God, pursuing God’s presence. A life of intimacy which means closeness with God and pursuing His presence. When we look at James chapter 4, verse 8, it says, ‘Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.’ John chapter 15, verse 5 the Lord Jesus says, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.’ Verse 7, ‘If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.’ We see a picture of the closeness of the relationship that we are called to have with the Lord. Many times, we think as believers, we have accepted the Lord, we sometimes keep everything that has to do with the Lord, maybe spiritual activity on a particular day and say, Sunday is when I go to church, read the bible, pray etc. But we see that it is a life of living closely with the Lord. The Lord says I am the vine and you are the branches which means that we are always connected 24/7 with Him. It is a deep connection because what flows- the life sap that flows in the vine flows into the branches as well and the branch bears fruit because of that life flowing from the vine into the branches. The Lord is calling/ inviting is to live such a life. He is saying that He is vine and we are asked to abide with Him. Another verse which talks about that closeness/ intimacy is Mark chapter 12, verses 30 and 31, ‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”’ The Lord is calling/ inviting us to love Him and we need to love Him with everything within us, with our whole being (heart, strength and mind). We are invited to a life of close fellowship. It is such a privilege for us that the God of heaven and earth would invite us into this kind of a special relationship. Shall we pray?
Father, we thank you that you are calling us to a life of intimacy and it is something that is not reserved for a few people but for each one of us, everyone who follows you. We thank you for this and we choose to follow you closely and draw near to you even as you draw near to us, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
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Duration:4 mins 36 secs
