Daily writing prompt

If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

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I can be someone else, not just for a day but for always! “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

When I woke up this morning this poem was forming in my heart. I call it “The Inner Click.”

Go to your settings.
Click on “Allow Christ,”
So Jesus can start
To notify your heart
What He’s wanting you
To say and to do.
 
My human concerns are a stumbling block to the concerns of God. My desires resist what God requires. They cause me to turn off Christ’s notifications in my heart.

Discipleship requires cross-bearing and self-denial. To be able to follow the living Jesus I have to be willing to be constantly aware of and focused on Christ’s inner notifications and to continually give up my control, my desires, and my plans to His Lordship and authority.

What I want and what God wants don’t align. Moment-by-moment, I have to choose whose will I will do. Will I be led by God’s Spirit? Will I give Him my heart and let Him steer it? Only as I die to self-will will I begin to live with the holy thrill of daily following and obeying the risen Jesus.

One click on the screen in your heart can change your life. “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Every time Jesus knocks on your heart, click on “Give Access” so He can fully live in and through you. The more human control there is in your life, the less Holy Spirit control is there. A relationship with Christ isn’t humanly organized and programmed. It must flow from the heart.

If Christianity doesn’t involve more than going to church, it’s not enough! True faith develops into daily discipleship. Keep your focus on the living Jesus, not on human programming. If you hear or read something that inspires you, don’t namedrop the author’s name, copy and paste it, or quote it. In your own words, tell what it inspired in you.

Jesus didn’t come to organize a religion but to build His followers together in a Spirit-led, unorganized relationship with Him. The traditional church format of singing some songs and then having the congregation be an audience that passively listens to the same man lecture each week seems to produce more boredom than it does passion for and daily obedience to the risen Jesus. It doesn’t inspire people to click on “Allow Christ.”