Daily writing prompt

Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.

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I call my invisible shoes “Christ-Responders” (CR). “For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared.” So says Ephesians 6:15 in the New Living Translation of the Bible.

Those supernatural shoes have taken me to the strength of surrender: To surrender to the risen Jesus Christ is to access His presence and power. To abandon your self-focused and confused will and fully embrace His perfect and loving will, is the position of eternal strength. To lay down self-will for Christ’s will and begin to be continually led by the Spirit is to align with the vigor of the kingdom of God.

Put on your Christ-Responders! Discover the amazing places they will take you.

Respond to Jesus.
Respond all day.
Respond to Jesus
Do more than pray.

Take time to ponder.
Stay filled with wonder.
Spend your entire day
As a Christ responder.

Surrender to Jesus.
You can’t live Christ’s way
If you won’t obey
What He has to say.

The more your Christ-responsivity
The more you will be aware
Of the Holy Spirit’s activity.

Stay always online with Jesus.
Let His notifications
Be your meditations.
Let Him bring life to your heart
And make doubt and fear depart.

Be a Christ-responder. Be aware of Jesus and respond to His inner promptings. It’s good to kindly let people hear what you know about Jesus, but it’s even better to let them see you respond to Him with humility and love. Church membership doesn’t make someone a part of the body of Christ. A life and heart surrendered to the risen Jesus does.

Jesus is living, present, and active in all of His true disciples through the person of the Holy Spirit — “Christ in you.” When Christians gather for worship and all begin to listen to the risen Jesus and then say and do whatever He tells them to, Jesus begins to personally direct the meeting through the people present. I love meetings where the Holy Spirit is given the freedom to freely move as He desires.