When I was reflecting on this passage, I was reminded of the power of relationships in that the most fruitful relationships require giving of ourselves to benefit someone who we value highly.
Not so much the case with Christ in that if we give of ourselves (trust), we will reap a better version of ourselves if we would just obey (or simply take action on his guidance).
As leaders, one of the most frustrating challenges is when those whom we are selected to lead may ask for advise or solutions to their challenges and then they take actions which are contrary to the guidance. When they receive unexpected results, they are upset.
I am sure that I have frustrated a many mentors and managers because of such behaviors. Though my intentions may have been honorable, my execution may have been flawed.
“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not practice what I tell you?”
Fair question. Why don’t we practice what we are told? Here are a few ideas:
⁃ Lack of a decision to commit to authority and to trust the person or the process.
⁃ Lack of Discipline. We make a decision to commit but we achieve consistently inconsistent outcomes.
⁃ Lack of know how and the resolve to press through being imperfect until achieving mastery.
⁃ Not counting up the cost. It was simply harder than we thought. Now what?
“Now thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ and who maketh manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place.”
Thank God for grace!
We have an opportunity to begin again,today, to lay a solid and secure foundation in Christ.
He is always ready to receive us.
Be Blessed!
Be a Blessing!
““Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not practice what I tell you?
Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and obeys them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a [far-sighted, practical, and sensible] man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and yet could not shake it, because it had been securely built and founded on the rock.
But the one who has [merely] heard and has not practiced [what I say], is like a [foolish] man who built a house on the ground without any foundation, and the torrent burst against it; and it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.””
Luke 6:46-49 AMP
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