The nature of following God grows deeper in meaning the more one knows Him. For many, following God is about believing and doing all the right things and not doing bad things. It means reading your Bible, praying, and going to church on Sunday. All the while there seems to be something missing, something that doing these things does not fulfill.
We try to circumvent that feeling of lack by heaping more spiritual activities into our lives. We increase prayer, evangelism, reading the Bible. We attend more conferences, or serve more in our churches. Still there seems like something ought to be different. If anyone asked us if we were following God, we would vehemently affirm that we are. The question offends us, but awakens an internal desire to know what is meant by this question.
Too often, we equate following God with being a good church going Christian. The thing is most of the Christian life as we commonly see it exemplified can be done without any supernatural strength. Much can be done by natural effort. We do not need to have a supernatural relationship with Jesus to read our Bible, go to church, serve in the church, do moral things, and avoid immoral behavior. The world is teeming with religions that do this quiet well.
What then is the difference that comes from life with Jesus? If doing all these things is not the summation or even the essence of Christianity, how then do we follow God?
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As Christ imitated His Father, so we imitate Christ.
We see the things that Jesus is doing and enter in to them.
As the Father sent Him, so He sends us. We cannot see the Father, nor what the Father is doing...but we can see Jesus.
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