Walking With Christ

I ask a lot of questions when I’m reading the bible. Not all of them pertain to exactly what I’m reading. I don’t remember what I was reading, but the question of the moment was “what does it mean to truly repent?” Hours later, I was driving to lunch and fell in behind a really slow moving car. I’m tired. I’m hungry (hangry?). I just want to get to the place that has the food that I want. I want to be able to sit down and enjoy my meal in peace, but this really slow moving car is delaying the enjoyment of said food.

In my head I’m thinking, “Please turn”. That’s when I hear it. “How often have I said that to you?”

Ouch. Obviously, there is a slightly different context in that I was not specifically following the car in front of my life the Holy Spirit is with us. In the context of my earlier question, to repent means to turn or to change direction, a change of heart that changes ones destination.

The underlying thought here is that there aren’t a lot of principles that apply to mankind that God does not exemplify and put on display.

James 4:2-3 (2)You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. (3)You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.(ESV)

God wants us to follow Jesus, because that is what is best for us. He already knows if we are going to turn or not, but He can’t make us turn. He can only ask us to turn. If He knows that turning will give us the best path but doesn’t ask us to turn then how can we be blamed for not turning?

God is always faithful. God will never fail to ask us to turn.