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People who walk with God and who have given their lives to Him have a personal walk with the Lord that is incomparable with any other relationship we can have in this life.
You quickly learn that God is really alive and that He truly cares about you. As you live by your faith in Him you also soon learn that you can call on Jesus any time night or day and that He will respond to your needs, no matter how trivial or how serious they may be.
God is the creator of all things. He made us. And for the sinless, all-powerful Creator, man was His crowning achievement. He made man because He wanted something back from him. He purposed to create a companionship between God and His creation, a relationship for Eternity.
We all know the story of how the first people created were placed in a beautiful garden, and how they soon were tempted to disobey Him and how they did sin. That act brought sin into the nature and bloodstream of man. But because of His great love and mercy, that caused God to unfold His beautiful plan of redemption for man through the coming of the Sonship. When John the Baptist saw Jesus, he declared Christ was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
God's idea was to create a bride for Himself, composed only of people who loved Him. He would call that bride His Church. Christ's death on Calvary made it possible for every man to be cleansed from sin and to have eternal life. Every man, however, has not chosen to advantage of His cleansing power, so every man has not been born into God's great church.
We don't have the space here to really cover all the details, but the point I want to make today concerns those who already have given themselves to Him and who have been called into a life of service to God. God wants to use all of us! Even though you may not fully understand how He wants to use your life, be sure that He does. He has a perfect will for you.
But, you ask, how do I find out what that will is?
Well, as Isaiah said in Isaiah 55:3, "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." Listen for the voice of God in your life. He will lead you and instruct you in the pathway in which you must go.
He may not speak to you audibly as He did to Moses and Samuel in the Old Testament, but if you have God's Spirit, He will certainly communicate with you and show you His will.
Remember, when we pray we are talking to God. We are communicating with Him. When we read His Word God is talking to us. The Bible conveys His will, His ways, and His plans for us. Jesus said, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
We soon learn that God is always the same, He never changes. The more you learn about that truth, the more comforting it becomes. That also means that we are the ones who need to change. We need to let Him change us because God does all things right and for our best, when we put our lives in His hands.
So listen to God. Listen to the Spirit, and obey. Do that, and you won't go wrong.
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