Behaving As If Jesus Were Here In The Room With Me Right Now

Jan. 24, 2010

I was trying to correlate the sermon George preached today ("The Challenge of Christian Manhood") in conjunction with the lesson from Daniel we studied together in our Crosswalk Class , ("Choices to Make").

George said we are to make the choice to be obedient (i.e., a "choice to make").

Beth Moore said "God wants us to recognize the critical priority of deliberate training in godliness." (a challenge of Christian man/womanhood)

These two things are very much interrelated, and I think the reason we studied them both the same week is that GOD WANTS US TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE MESSAGE!

Here it is in my own words:

If you live as if God were watching you always, which He is, then you'd never have to worry about straying far from Him.

This sounds really easy to do, conceptually. However, it's hard to do while living in this worldly-world of ours. Think about how your children behave when you're there with them in the room, and how they behave when you're not. Is there any difference? Should there be any difference?

I think God wants us to make the choice to be obedient to His will for us.

--Marthann