Jesus Helped People Get Moving

(It has been a long seven-plus months dry spell in the “wilderness.”  I can’t promise that a new season has arrived, or that the WDJD dE-votionals will now commence to once again flow freely.  We are striving to move into a new ministry in 2013, and covet your occasional prayers for Jim Wilken Ministries and 2 For The Ride*.)

What Did Jesus Do?

Jesus Helped People Get Moving

“Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going.

How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way…’”

John 14:5-6

The ministry of Jesus was, and is, about transporting people—most specifically he came to help people who were estranged from God return to the Father—he came to be the way, the ONLY way, to God.  Jesus simply could not let people stay where they were.  To some he said, “Come.”  To some he said, “Follow.”  To some he said, “Go.”  To some he said, “Rise.”  And to still others he said, “Walk.”  But he never told anyone to simply stay put.  When Christ encounters someone today, we can be sure he is going to call, command, enable, encourage, and motivate them to move.

Some of us are better able than others to respond to Jesus, but all of us have some kind of impediment to overcome, if we are going to come, follow, go, rise, or walk.  Sin disables us all.  Jesus alone overcomes our sin, and enables us to get up, get going, and move.  And, if we are one of Christ’s disciples, we can be sure that he wants us to help others to overcome the impediments (sins) in their way, so that they can get up, get going, and move  with Jesus also.

S.D.G.

Thank you, Father, for sending your Son Jesus to overcome my disabling sins and enable me to get up, get going, and by the power of your Holy Spirit start moving closer to you in and through Christ.  Amen.

*2 For The Ride is our new ministry.  You can find out about it at http://psalmfoxx.wix.com/2-for-the-ride,  and https://www.facebook.com/pages/2-For-The-Ride/392641444156072?ref=ts&fref=ts.