february 25th, 2011

Abiding in God.


How do you live a Christian life? Is it by doing good deeds, or doing the right thing all the time? What is living a good Christian life? Do any of us know the answer?


Spending time with our Father, the Lord above.


There are three ways; learning God's word, constant prayer, and loving one another.


God's word is very important; however, you cannot do God's word without knowing the word. Don't you think that's right? I know it's right. 


"If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love." - John 15:10


If you want to have a strong relationship with our God you need to know God's word and his commands. Follow his word, and believe in it. 


Prayer. Do you pray as much as you should? What do you pray about? Yourself? I've talked about prayer before in previous posts, and you may go back and look at my view on prayer if you'd wish to do so. If you aren't getting your prayers answered you probably aren't asking for the right thing. We shouldn't pray for a big house, or lots of money, should we? We all probably ask for something like that at some point in our lives. This subject was preached about at church previously, and it was a wonderful sermon. 


"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." - John 15:7


Loving one another is the third way of abiding in the Lord Almighty. Do we all love every single person surrounding us? I don't believe we do like God wants us to. Are we like Jesus Christ and have the love that he did for all of us to lay down his life for his friends? Not at all. Abide in God. Love each other as you want to be loved. 


"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends." - John 15:13


Remember these three ways. Do you know God's word? Do you have the constant prayer that you know you should? Do you love every one of your brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ and treat them with love and not hate? 


Ask yourself those three questions regularly. 


If you do know God's word, pray like you should, and love everyone... everything else will fall into place. 

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.

Amen.