Daily writing prompt

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

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I love these famous words: “Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.” They’re more than words to me. They’re reality. Only one person in my life hasn’t changed. That’s Jesus — the timeless One!

Jesus is active now! Religion tends to obscure the reality of Jesus in the present by focusing on Him in the past or future. I spend most of my time thinking about and experiencing the presence of the ever-present One now, so I seldom think about the future or the past. I love every moment with Jesus. (It seems odd to me that church names, preachers’ names, worship leaders’ names, and many other names are spoken by Christians so much more often than the name that is above every other name — the name of Jesus!)

I woke up with this poem forming in my mind this morning:

Every time I
Open my heart
To Jesus Christ
A quiet rush
Of holy hush
Surrounds me
And astounds me
As I gush
With the Spirit
Of the Lord.

Jesus is here now.
How now?
By the presence
Of His Spirit.
If we let Jesus
Now lead us
People will see
Christ working in us
And be changed.
Hear Him now.

This sentence also formed in my mind before I got out of bed: “The most effective leader is a living example of continually listening to and obeying the risen Jesus.”

Jesus has opened the way for ongoing intimacy with God. Regardless of the circumstances, your life will soar like an eagle in the present if you will fully submit to His presence and always listen to and obey His still small voice.

God has more for Christians than we are now experiencing. I don’t believe that God wants His people to just attend and simply sit through a religious meeting that features the same speaker every week. I believe He wants us to frequently assemble together so we can all listen to the Holy Spirit and obey the 50+ one another commands of the New Testament.

(I feel prompted by God’s Spirit when I write. Some of the statements I write make me feel uncomfortable, but I try to obey the promptings rather than my comfort zone.)