Tuesday, March 24, 2020

THE PERFECT LIFE

The perfect life is when Yehovah is our counsellor and guide. Proverbs 3:6: In all your ways acknowledge him, and He will direct your paths. If is not that we seek Yehovah in a great emergency; but that we habitually wait on Him in every detail of life, great and small. When we acknowledge Him we will find that He will guide us and then we can come before Him thanking for His intervention and help.

The perfect life has only one object and that is Yehovah. Jesus walked on this earth with that singleness of eye. He set Yehovah before him as his only object. In such a life there is nothing of self or of self-will, self is dead.

Setting Yehovah before him he found that Yehovah was at hand, ever to support him, so that nothing could move him from the path that leads to life.

Believers can follow the same path of life, relying on Yehovah to guide them along the way. IF, day by day we set Yehovah before us as our one object; to serve Him, to please Him, to do His will, shall we not find He will be with us to support us along the way. With His support we will not be turned be moved or turned aside by any trial, circumstance, opposition, persecution or suffering we may meet along the narrow path that leads to life.

The perfect life has joy and gladness of heart that people of the world do not experience. Notice what Jesus says: "These things I have spoken to you that my joy may remain in you." (John 15:11) David says of Yehovah; "You have put gladness in my heart". (Psalm 4:4)

Our lives are lived in the light of the glory of to which it leads, be with the lord Jesus co-ruling with him during his thousand year rule, after he has been sent down by his Father to take his place on the throne of David at Zion at the end of this age. "The path of life" leads to the presence of Yehovah where there is fullness of joy for ever more!".

Let us consider the lord Jesus as he walked on the path of life on this earth during his life. May Yehovah help us to realize that we can walk on that path, in the same way that the lord Jesus did. We will be enabled to do so because we have a great High Priest to sustain us, as we follow in his steps, along the path of life he has marked out for us. Whatever we may have to endure along the way, let us remember the words, "Be strong in the grace that is in God's anointed one Jesus". (2 Timothy 2:11)

Jesus walked on the path of life leaving us a way to follow in his steps. He walked on that path depending on the love of His Father, totally committed to doing His will, relying on His enabling power to carry him through. Jesus walked before his God and his Father as a humble man, with a contrite heart always acting as a servant towards all that he met. We can do no less! May our God and Father enable us to do so, Amen.   

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