I WILL NOT FORSAKE MY LORD

Lately I have been encouraging our church members or visitors to remove the blinders that can limit our ability to know God in a fuller way. You know that we only see 10% of an iceberg in the water. The same goes with our acceptance, relationship, and reception of God’s immensity of love, guidance, and protection for us, His creation. We only see a portion of what God has for us. Part of removing blinders is in making the Lord the focus of our lives. I pray this short writing will help to enrich you in your journey through life. I will not forsake my Lord.

I will. It seems like a pretty simple action for acting or committing ourselves to achieve a duty. I will (fill in the blank). In seeing a different clarification for the word will it means, expressing determination, insistence, persistence, and willfulness.

Not forsake is another wording clarification for building on our relationship with God through His son Jesus Christ. Forsake means to abandon, renounce, or turn away from someone or something. Jesus on the cross cried out to his father. Why have you forsaken me. In using the word ‘‘not’ before ‘forsaking’ it shows the action to be taken. My Lord. The definition I am using for Lord is, a ruler, or preeminence of whom or what our service, actions, and focus are committed to. Anything can and does serve as our lord as it is used or perceived to meet our needs.

In bringing these six words together the goal is to bring more attention to our Living King Jesus Christ. From Adam and Eve, to Israel, to current times, we as humanity are always looking for a better way to live and feel. The selfishness of me, me, me, abounds in hearts and minds ad infinitum. We should not forsake our true Lord.

I will, expresses our determination, insistence, persistence, and willfulness to; Not forsake abandon, renounce, or turn away from; My Lord Jesus Christ.

In sharing from John 10:7-10, “So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

This life that Jesus promised is a life of hope, balance, and sanity. He came that we may have life (hope, balance, & sanity) and have it abundantly. We get so overloaded with freedom of choice and making our selections from the catalogue of the world that sometimes all of us can forsake God’s immensity in His love, guidance, and protection for us His creation.

Blessings to all, Pastor John