Old Testament Relationship: Proverbs: 25 :18 RVS….. Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law.
Jeremiah 29:11….. For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
New Testament Relationship: Matthew 22:36-40 …..Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" 37 He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
For Christians, we rarely think, talk, or consider the Perfectness of Jesus, we just accept it; yet we sometimes find passages that show His behavior seemingly unlike what He taught. Discussed in the writing "Meekness or Boldness" is the fact that in Matthew 5:5 Jesus speaks of meekness, "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth". Yet, at the end of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus seems neither meek or mild-mannered, and neither does He seem comprising in the ‘Woes’ to the “Pharisees and teachers of the law” in Matthew 23*1. He seems the opposite of what He taught! Cleansing the Temple and other behaviors in His last week does not seem like one who could be called Perfect or even in Control. But, there was The Plan! It was because in God’s Plan there was a transition from the OT Relationships to the NT Relationships! The Plan to which Jesus was always obedient!
Life is a progression from one stage to the next. We are not upset because a baby will not respond on command at two weeks old for we know that the baby has to be trained. For us, it is a different story. In our own lives we are trained in new things at school in our growing years and learning continues through our lives; when that growth stops, our minds wither. Similarly, when our Spiritual training, questioning, and learning stops, we begin to wither in our Jesus provided faith and falter in our Trusting God. To be the person God wants us to be, in our Spiritual journey we must continue to study, grow, pray, and ask questions to truly understand His plan for us. We may question as to what we understand about God's plan for us, but in those questions we humbly ask, we find greater understanding. In our Journey, to humbly question the Master, especially while in submission to His Will, simply leads to greater faith and belief, and encouraging our need to submit to His Will. In this submission, our relationship with God grows stronger!
Even in Jesus’ last moments, He humbly submitted, and recognized God’s Power in His life. But, even then He questioned if “this cup” (His crucifixion) was necessary and asked the coming pain to be removed. But, in the same breath, submitted with “not my will but yours be done” (Luke 22:42 NRS).Our submission is our part of God’ Plan. We often seem just like the many Hebrews of old, casting off restraint and selfishly going our way! Choosing God’s Way, God’s Plan is a eternal choice we have to make. When we choose God’s Plan, knowing of and responding to the Challenges we face, then God is most happy for our desire to submit, live, and choose as Jesus did!
The Challenge of our Spiritual Journey is not difficult to understand.
We must as Jesus:
submit to God’s Will and His
Plan for us whatever it may be, then,
Seek to understand God’s Plan and
Pray daily to be in God’s Plan and as Jesus did
Strive daily to Live Gods’s Plan for us.
It is then in this submission that
Seek to understand God’s Plan and
Pray daily to be in God’s Plan and as Jesus did
Strive daily to Live Gods’s Plan for us.
It is then in this submission that
we come into God’s Blessings and Intentional Will for us,
a greater Righteous Relationship with Him.
Praise God that He Knows our Needs, and
Has His Plan for our Spiritual Journey.
Thanks be to God
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In your life, you plan. As we plan there are always goals to achieve, otherwise we would not plan. I hope that in your planning you Seek God's plan for your life. Otherwise, it just maybe "Much Ado About Nothing". Click the link for more on His Plans.
http://lonnieadailythought.blogspot.com/2011/10/jesus-master-of-submission-and.html
a greater Righteous Relationship with Him.
Praise God that He Knows our Needs, and
Has His Plan for our Spiritual Journey.
Thanks be to God
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In your life, you plan. As we plan there are always goals to achieve, otherwise we would not plan. I hope that in your planning you Seek God's plan for your life. Otherwise, it just maybe "Much Ado About Nothing". Click the link for more on His Plans.
http://lonnieadailythought.blogspot.com/2011/10/jesus-master-of-submission-and.html
See the prophet Habakkuk
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