GodReflection: How About a Better Way?
My purpose in this series of posts is to highlight a better way to live. From the first page of The Book of Genesis to the final page of The Revelation, our Creator reveals by various broad stroke contrasts how we are to choose his better way.
God and Satan, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, Life and Death,
Right and Wrong, Virtue and Sin, Truth and Error, —you can add to the list. At the center of these opposites, we find ourselves faced with decisions. There is no middle ground. Countess times each day we choose between them as we navigate our daily walk.
For the past several weeks I have followed the contrast between our futile attempt to live life powered by self or to live life empowered by the Holy.
In The New Testament we find the key for successful navigation of this process. Its 
pages tell us how God came as man in Jesus His Son to live among us to teach us how we can live with Him and with all humanity.
The good news story reveals a God who dearly loves each one of us, lived among us, and died on our behalf through Jesus His Son, to cover every sin we can possibly commit. This Jesus—who was one with God—was raised to live again.
He now reigns as God’s King and rules all creation. Actively he works to restore EVERYTHING to God’s good and perfect state described in Genesis chapters one and two.
Before the risen Jesus returns to be with God to begin his eternal rule over creation, he reveals to his disciples—and to each of us—his way for us to navigate life.
We access Jesus’s new way by submission to new birth through water and Spirit. And in that entrance onto the way of Jesus, he gives us His Holy-Spirit-Self as his 24/7 presence to walk with us through the difficulties of life.
Through His Holy Presence he rules over all to renew creation while at the very same time he is at my side in my daily walk. In the meantime, we wait for God’s perfect time for Jesus to return in his resurrected body to live among us once again.
God will speak and all remaining disorder will disappear and his newly created perfect earth under the new heaven will be our new home. Never again can Satan, evil, darkness, death, wrong, error, or sin touch us. Forever we will live with God, Goodness, Light, Life, Right, Truth, and Virtue.
Aware that my words are inadequate, here is how I see God’s presence work in our current reality. From the moment I received his Holy Spirit to live with me, it is only he—Jesus who has knowledge of every moment I have experienced.
He has been with me as every new person entered my life. He has been with me as I lived within family, at school, among other believers, at work, and as I serve. From his constant presence with me, Jesus’s Holy Spirit knows my need at any precise moment. Among his resources he draws from the “Encyclopedia of my Life” that only he knows.
My phone rings, or I receive a note with the perfect word of encouragement. He arranges table-time over breakfast, lunch, or coffee and brings the exact right people to meet me with spiritual refreshment.
His spirit see that I read the obituary of a teacher who once shared import insights through Scripture and experience into God’s care—and reminds me of my indebtedness to godly mentors.
In my attempt to follow Jesus’s way I need additional help and clarification. Before I know it, I find new light in a verse of Scripture, a relevant book “happens” to catch my attention, or my concern “just happens” to be addressed during Sunday worship or in one of the three or four podcasts I follow.
Jesus knows the hundreds of hymns and songs taught to me over the past seven decades. In timely fashion, one will come to mind to enlighten or to re-enforce my growth process.
In recent days a hymn that has blessed my life for decades flowed anew into my mind. Listen to its words. It is as if each word affirms Jesus’s Way as the better way to live.
Teach me Your way O Lord, teach me Your Way. Your guiding grace afford, teach me Your Way. Help me to walk aright, more by faith less by sight; lead me with heavenly light, teach me Your Way.
When I am sad at heart, teach me Your Way. When earthly joys depart, teach me Your Way. In hours of loneliness, in times of dire distress, in failure or success, teach me Your Way.
When doubts and fears arise, teach me Your Way. When storm clouds fill the skies, teach me Your Way. Shine through the wind and rain, through sorrow, grief, and pain; make now my pathway plain, teach me Your Way.
Long as my life shall last, teach me Your Way. Where-e’er my lot be cast, teach me Your Way. Until the race is run, until the journeys done, until the crown be won, teach me Your Way.
B. Mansell Ramsey wrote that prayer in 1919.
Jesus, in his Holy Presence weaves that prayer into my walk.
I would love to hear from you. How has Jesus used the “Encyclopedia of Your Life”—that only you and he know—to help you walk Jesus’s Way?
Stay tuned.
Gary J. Sorrells
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