Seize the Moment – Day 337
Walk Like Jesus!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, February 17.
Please join us for our Wednesday night Prayer Awakening service, tonight from 6:15-7. It is a sacred time of prayer focused on worship and the praying of God’s Word. Just like with all our Sunday morning services, you can join us in-person or online.
What does it mean to follow Jesus?
There are two verses in 1 John 2 that I want to highlight because they illuminate one another and will teach us what it means to follow Jesus.
One of my favorite statements on discipleship is found in 1 John 2:5b-6, “By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”
Now, couple that with the last verse, 1 John 2:29, “If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.”
To follow Jesus is “to walk in the same manner as He walked”, which is to “practice righteousness.” Never forget that our right relationship with God (righteousness) is because we are born again through our union with Jesus Christ by grace through faith. That is the abiding relationship we have in the easy yoke of Jesus!
Seize the moment and walk as Jesus walked, not by putting on a robe and sandals, but by living out the work of the Holy Spirit in you—faith, hope, and love, the theological virtues of our faith!
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse, Romans 8:38-39: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Be safe and stay warm.