Following Jesus 65

Vision refers to an aspirational, ambitious, hopeful and motivated description of what you would like to achieve or accomplish in the mid-term or long-term future. It is intended to serve as a clear guide for choosing current and future courses of action. In short, your vision is what you want to achieve or accomplish. It is your goal(s). 

 

1 Peter 4:7-11 says, “The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (1 Peter 4:7-11 ESV)

 

We glorify God by understanding the times in which we live.  Vs. 7a.  “The end of all things is at hand.” 

 

We also glorify God by displaying godly disciplines in how we live. Vs. 7b-11a. “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies…”

 

Followers of Jesus glorify Him by serving others in prayer. We do so by exerting sound judgment and clear thinking when we pray.

 

Followers of Jesus glorify Him be serving one another in self-sacrificial love of the will. This behavior covers or hides a multitude of grievances we may have towards others and they may towards us. 

 

Proverbs 10:12 says, “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”

 

I Corinthians 13:1-8a says, “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” 

 

When next we meet, we will how else we may glorify God by serving others. Until then, Soli deo Gloria!