Get Real With Iesous

"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" Luke 6:46


Words are the vehicle by which we communicate.  Words strung together in a certain manner or syntactic units are called sentences.  There are times in which a single word may be a sentence.  Note the telling interrogational power of this sentence.  (The following verses 47-49 illustrate its point).

The above sentence doggedly assaulted my conscience at one time in my life.  There were times when they were thunderous, and at other times probing and surgical, and then at other times a relentless whisper that would lay siege to what I was doing - I was living outside of God's will for my life.

These words were barnacles that my 'chosen' intellectual passions and social affiliations could not wash away with any bristled spiritual denial.  And I did cultivate denial.  But at every point my fabricated denials were pierced through with the unapologetic intrusion of these words.

"Why do you (Josiah) call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

The Iesous looked deeply upon my lie and quietly invested himself in  me.  He was there in the midst of my denial.  I knew he was there and I would not acknowledge him - until he confronted me with me.

"Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say?"

He pursued me through his relentless word to me.  I countered with feeble attempts to control my destiny.  One day a wonderful thing happened, I could no longer fight him.  At that point he showed me that he was never my enemy and that I was my own enemy.  The irony was not lost upon me.

My friend, have you been called to give your life to Him?  Are you tired of the battle raging within you?  Come to the Iesous and you will find rest for your soul.

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