GOD-TRACKING IS DARING TO BE DIFFERENT

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“God does not want us to conform to the humanist ways of the world’s standards, but to transform our thinking; to know his will. You see, through Christ, God has called you to be different!”

Matthew 16:25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.

I recently watched a documentary series on television that discussed the origins and future of Christianity. It portrayed “the Church” as a religious institution intent on taking over the world at all costs. It showed how, after Constantine had declared Christianity to be the state religion of the Roman Empire in about 313 AD, crusades and campaigns were launched to force the world to convert to Christianity. Sadly, what they said about this period of the history of the Church was true. However, what the documentary failed to reveal was the true origins of Christianity, as seen on the Day of Pentecost around 33 AD, when God poured his spirit out on the early believers. Reading Acts and the gospels shows a very different picture of the origins and motives of true Christianity.

After Peter had identified Jesus as the Christ, Jesus said to him, “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” The use of the word church here comes from the Greek word ekklesia which means called out ones. Jesus explained to Peter that he would be the founder of a body of believers who would be called out to be different from the world. In other words, the true Church would be made up of true followers of the Messiah, living by his words and principles. And Jesus taught things like: love your enemies, if someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to him the other also, give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and if anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last and the servant of all. The “Church” portrayed in that television documentary was nowhere near the true Church that Jesus built upon the early disciples.

Dear friend if you call yourself a GodTracker and have truly committed yourself to following Christ then you have decided to live by all that Christ taught. If you call yourself a born again Christian and if you have repented of sin, then you have come out from the world and have been grafted into Jesus, the true vine. All else is false religion. Unfortunately, institutionalised Christianity became nothing more than a pride filled humanistic attempt to conquer the world. During the period of history discussed in the documentary I was watching, the Church had lost its true calling, because it failed to humbly come out from the world and be different.

Do you call yourself a Christian simply because you were born in a Christian country or raised under Christian values? Do you call yourself a Christian simply because you occasionally attend church or say grace before you eat a meal? Or are you prepared to call yourself a Christian because you have denied your ego and have taken up your cross to follow Jesus? God is calling us out of the world to be separate from its values – to be holy as he is holy. Jesus is building his ekklesia that will stand strong against the gates of hell, but God is not calling us to defend the faith or forcefully convert the world. In fact, Jesus said that the way they will know that we are his disciples is by our love. God does not want us to conform to the humanist ways of the world’s standards, but to transform our thinking; to know his will. You see, through Christ, God has called you to be different!

God-tracking is daring to be different.

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Matthew 16:13-20
Matthew 5:43-48
Matthew 5:38-42
Luke 20:21-25
Mark 9:35-37
John 15:5-8
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
1 Peter 1:14-16
John 13:34-35
Romans 12:1-2

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I choose now to live a life that is different to the ways of the world I see around me

O sovereign Lord, I realise that I have lived a life less than separate from the ways of the world. I know now that I have been looking at Christianity as a religion and not a relationship. I’m sorry Lord. I’m sorry for anything that I have said, done or thought that has grieved you in any way, and I want you to renew my mind so that I will walk according to your perfect plan for my life. I choose now to walk by faith and humility before you. I choose now to live a life that is different to the ways of the world I see around me. I want to conform to your holy image and live in love for you and my fellow man. Help me to renew my thinking by your words, Jesus. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS LIVING BY FAITH UNDER THE BENEFITS OF GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS IN Y

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21 October 2016

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GOD-TRACKING IS LIVING BY FAITH UNDER THE BENEFITS OF GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS IN YOU

Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Jesus is the blueprint of God for your life. The Bible says that we have all sinned and corrupted his perfect righteous image in which we were created. Even though God gave us the Law of Moses, it was rendered powerless in that it was weakened by the sinful nature. So, God sent his own Son, Jesus to reconcile us to himself. Because Jesus is God – God incarnate – he is and was sinless. Even so, God’s plan was to allow righteous Jesus to take the curse of sin when he died for us. You see, God imputed Jesus with your sin so that, by repentance and faith, you could be imputed with his righteousness. In Christ, you become the righteousness of God. Jesus in you is God’s original plan for your life.

Many people think they need to work hard to earn God’s favour, but this is impossible. God is so holy and righteous that we would need to become as he is in order to earn his favour. However, Jesus is already how God is, because Jesus is God in the flesh. Therefore, to become righteous, you and I need to intentionally repent of sin and then live by faith in God’s grace. The moment you truly repent of sin and admit your failings, you die to the old nature of sin. Then the moment you exercise faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus you put confidence in Christ and begin to live by his righteousness.

If you are in Christ you are a new creation, the old sinful life is gone and you have a new righteous life, in Christ. You were crucified with him when you confessed your sins and surrendered your life to God. It’s no longer the old you living in your body; it’s Christ living in you; and he is the righteousness of God! You see, the righteousness you now have in you is not your righteousness but it’s God’s righteousness in you.

Therefore, you can claim the benefits of the righteous. The Palms are packed with promises to the righteous:

“For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favour as with a shield,” (Psalm 5:11)

“The eyes of the Lord are towards the righteous and his ears towards their cry,” (Psalm 34:15)

“When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles,” (Psalm 34:17)

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all,” (Psalm 34:19)

“I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread,” (Psalm 37:25)

These are to mention but a few. However, we remind ourselves that we can only stand righteous before God, through Christ. That is, Jesus Christ is truly righteous and only by faith in his atoning death are we made righteous. Indeed, the righteous will live by faith!

God-tracking is living by faith under the benefits of God’s righteousness in you

Fix your eyes on Jesus

Dudley

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I’m made righteous by faith and so live daily by faith, claiming the benefits of the righteous as written in your Word

Pray
“O holy God, I admit that, in myself, I don’t have what it takes to be righteous. I admit and confess my sin to you. You are faithful and just to forgive and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank you for your grace and mercy and for forgiving me of all sin. I choose to die to my old self and commit my life to you, in Jesus’ name. By faith I now lay hold of your righteousness. I confess that Jesus became sin for me so that, in him, I might become righteous by your righteousness. Thank you for the promises you make to the righteous. I’m made righteous by faith and so live daily by faith, claiming the benefits of the righteous as written in your Word. Thank you for cleansing my sin and making me righteous, in Christ. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS KEEPING YOUR HEART PURE TOWARDS THE PURPOSES OF GOD

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27 November 2015

Dear God-tracker

Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

 

GOD-TRACKING IS KEEPING YOUR HEART PURE TOWARDS THE PURPOSES OF GOD

Reading the story of David in 1 and 2 Samuel recently I was struck by how normal this man really was. Yes, David was a great king in the early history of Israel; yes he was a mighty worrier and yes he was a great poet. However, David was actually less than the perfect man we imagine him to be. David was simply a man on track with God’s plans for his life – a God-tracker like you and me. But what made King David so unique?

David was the youngest son of his father, Jesse and probably had a very lonely childhood. As a shepherd boy he spent most of his early years out in the hills around Bethlehem caring for his father’s sheep. It was probably here that David developed his deep relationship with God. One day Samuel the prophet was told by God to find the son of Jesse, whom he had chosen, and anoint him to be the next King of Israel. Finding David the shepherd boy Samuel makes him king, even though Saul still reigned over Israel. After this, David became a mighty worrier in the armies of Israel. King Saul was not happy with the popularity of this young up-start and became very jealous of David. So David goes into exile to escape Saul’s intentions to kill him. Here we see how, even though he still honoured God, David became a bandit, raiding and plundering villages. Eventually Saul dies and David takes the throne of Israel becoming the great God fearing King he was.

“So what’s this got to do with me?” you ask.  Well, you see, although David’s life was dramatic and exciting, he endured many hardships, backslid and, at times, becomes quite rebellious. Even after this hero becomes a great leader we see that he doesn’t always get things right. On one occasion David even commits adultery! Yes, this great Bible hero was indeed, less than perfect. We pick up some of David’s dilemmas in life thorough his writings. The Davidic Psalms are among some of the most frank writings in scripture (take a look at Psalm 22 for example). However, as we read these Psalms we begin to realise, although he was not perfect, David always kept his heart humble before God. He was always open and pliable towards God’s Word. And when he committed wrong, he was very quick to admit it and repent. David always honoured God and sought first his kingdom. Perhaps this is why he was called, “a man after God’s own heart.” I’m not sure about you but I can certainly relate to a man like King David. What an example to us all of maintaining a pure and contrite heart in tracking God’s plans and purposes for our lives.

God-tracking is keeping your heart pure towards the purposes of God

Blessings

Dudley
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 “Father God I admit I am less than perfect. In fact, I’m nothing like perfect! As great heroes of the faith, like King David, walked humbly before you, even though they were less than perfect, help me to likewise keep my heart pure and my eyes fixed on Jesus. Lord, I admit to my wrongs and my failures. I confess my sins and determine to never do these things again. I know that I cannot stand before you in my own right. Therefore, I come before you in the righteousness of Christ. Thank you that Jesus made the way for me to know your mercy and might at work in my life. So I acknowledge you in all my ways and seek first your kingdom. Amen.”
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GOD-TRACKING IS BEING RESPECTFULLY ASSERTIVE WITH GRACIOUS HUMILITY

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20 November 2015

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1 John 2:1-2My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

God-tracking is being respectfully assertive with gracious humility

A friend once asked me why it seems Apostle Paul is being manipulative in his letter to Philemon. He showed how the apostle seemed to use his position to strongly influence Philemon to take Onesimus back. He said to me, “Is it okay to use manipulation to get a Godly outcome in a situation?” My answer, no.

We need to understand the historical and cultural context of this short epistle. Oneismus was a runaway slave. He belonged to Philemon. Culturally and historically speaking, he was Philemon’s property. The punishment for a runaway slave in Roman times was death. On his travels, Paul meets Onesimus, who becomes a Christian. Paul urges Oneimus to return to his master, but this would mean certain punishment. So Paul writes a letter to Philemon asking him to accept Onesimus back, not as a slave but as a brother. He even offers to reimburse Philemon for his losses. In his letter Paul uses strong language to forthrightly encourage Philemon to accept Oneimus back, but he does this in love. Paul is indeed, Philemon’s senior in that he is his apostolic leader. As such he encourages the slave master to unconditionally love the runaway slave and set him free. The price for his redemption would be paid by the apostle.

In his correspondence with Philemon, Paul is not being manipulative, he is being respectfully assertive. You may be facing a similar situation today, either from the standpoint of Paul or that of Philemon. It could be you are trying to cause someone else to see the truth of a situation from the position of authority. If so then follow Paul’s example of being graciously forthright and willing to sacrificial, to communicate your point. On the other hand, you may feel you are being manipulated into a decision by someone in authority over you. If so then follow Philemon’s example of graciously and respectfully weigh up their opinion, and then humbly choosing to do what you see to be right. And remember to always acknowledge the Lord in prayer, including in your relationships.

God-tracking is being respectfully assertive with gracious humility

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Dudley

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Thank you, O Lord, for your assertive grace and love to me

Pray“Dear Lord, I’m in a similar position today. Forgive me for being manipulative in my relationships with others and help me to humbly accept Godly advice, with grace. Thank you for the story of Philemon and Onesimus. I do see, too, that there is a deeper meaning in this epistle: that of your grace shown to me through Jesus Christ. I’m like Onesimus and you are like Philemon. Paul is like Jesus. I have run away from your righteousness and sinned. Therefore, you, O God, have every reason to condemn me to death for my sin. But Jesus has become my intermediary – he is the one who is interceding with you to graciously accept me back. And he has paid the price for my freedom in his blood. Thank you, O Lord, for your assertive grace and love to me. Amen.”

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