8th January 2009
We become a pattern for others to follow when we set ourselves to be imitators of those given to us as examples to follow …If we let them lead us. However if we judge them, it will be a snare to us and we will miss the opportunity.
Missed opportunities lead to anxiety and frustration, if we are in the wrong house or fellowship, we will be in the wrong position and out of sync with what the Lord is doing with us and in us. The wrong leading will cause dislocation and disfunction with underlying dissatisfaction, a cycle of judgement results as we often discern things are out of order and turn our attention to the suspected cause, not realising that the error is in ourselves.
“Come back to me says the Lord, seek Me first, I will reveal the hinderance”.
Freedom comes from looking at ourselves first, not our suspicions. God wants us to be a pattern for others to follow. (1 Thess 1: 7). But are we being led correctly? Are we patterning ourselves on the right pattern? All of us have traced over pictures at some time or another …do the pictures match?, or are the lines seperate? Are we in the right place, being led properly, so we can be assesed by the right ones called to follow our example? Or are we out of place disjointed and disgruntled? …worthy of checking isn’t it?
Our aim is to attain perfection in living this life (1 Thess. 4: 1) . The pattern of our destiny is our freedom if we yield.
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