When Jesus spoke again to
the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will
never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
Don’t we love to follow someone, who has the greatest minds on the
planet, and be mentored by them? The main reason for this probably is that we
would like to become the greatest problem solvers in the world. For example, I
would like to be mentored by Troy McKnight or Grant Harris as they are not only
pastors, but my preaching style is similar to theirs. I also would like to be
mentored by Myk Habets and Rick Pierce. Myk Habets is one of the lecturers of
Carey Baptist College but he has a very high level theological mind and he is
considered as a theologian by others. Rick Pierce is the spiritual formation
pastor of Windsor Park, so I thought me becoming a student of Him would be good
as my aim of devotional-writing is to form people’s minds into the word of God
with guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Nevertheless, I believe those have been my favouritism issues, but I
already have a mentor. Because of her extrovert heart for Jesus Christ and our
ultimate goal is to glorify God in everything, I have been learning so much
through her. However, we have learned that God has infinite wisdom and
knowledge about everything (Romans 11:33-36). He also sent Jesus Christ
into the earth to show us the way of the truthful life (John 14:6). Other than this, He was
crucified on the cross on behalf of our death penalties. Why we had death
penalties before He came into the earth? God has intended for every human to
believe in Him but sin has spread into all of us, to make us not (Romans 5:12-14). The first sin happened in Genesis 3. Jesus was resurrected after the
three days of His crucifixion to show us that we can have life after the end of
physical lives. He has stated, “I
am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me
will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will
never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26)
Moreover, God has poured His Spirit into people who want to believe
in Jesus. The main reason for this is that the life can be difficult (Matthew 7:13-14). This does not mean our
lives could become easier if we become followers of Jesus. God wants to guide
us how to live truthfully in Jesus through His Spirit (John 16:7-15). However, we have to be open
our spirits to receive God’s Spirit (Revelation 3:20). If we never open our
spirits, we are never going to learn. Therefore, let us surrender our lives and
be vulnerable to Jesus (Luke 11:11-13). Why shouldn’t we surrender
ourselves to Him and become alive in Him since He was crucified on the cross and
resurrected for us (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)? Although life can
be hard, let’s make it simpler by receiving the Spirit of God (Matthew 11:25-30).
For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him
is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because
they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the
verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of
light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light,
and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. (John 3:16-21)
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