I See Myself as a Follower

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I see myself as a follower on a very narrow path. Step by step throughout each day I diligently seek to faithfully stay with the trail I’m on. You may have read a description of the pathway I’m following. In the Bible Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6)

Haven’t you read
Where Isaiah
The prophet said
“All we like sheep
Have gone astray.
We have all turned
To our own way,”?
The Good Shepherd
Has saved the day.
He’s paid the price
To wash away
All of our sins.
He invites us
To start to see
Life through His lens–
The mind of Christ
And be transformed
To His image.

Far too many Christians are sheep without an ongoing and obedient relationship with the Good Sheperd. (Matthew 9:36-37) Let Jesus, the Great Sheperd of the sheep, (Hebrews 13:19-21) continually keep you and transform you by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)

Jesus is the Good Sheperd. (John 10:11) His sheep hear His voice. (John 10:27) They follow Him (Matthew 4:19) away from bad thoughts, bad feelings, bad desires, and bad behaviors. (Matthew 4:17)

When Christian faith is based on ongoing personal surrender to and obedience to the risen Jesus (Matthew 16:24) it’s powerful and life changing. Christians need to be talking to Jesus, listening to Jesus, and obeying Jesus instead gossiping about conspiracy theories. (2 Corinthians 12:9 and Ephesians 4:29) If Christians in the USA would seek to individually be directly led and controlled by God the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:14) and endeavor to obey the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5, 6, and 7) and the rest of the New Testament with as much intensity and commitment as they are putting into politics, we would experience a great, culture-transforming, spiritual awakening. Haven’t you read Ephesians 5:14?

When I'm walking
Through the night
The bright light
Of the moon
Above my head
Reminds me of
What I've read
And I see
Christ the Bright
And Morning Star,
God the Son,
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