{"id":331416,"date":"2023-03-01T03:06:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=331416"},"modified":"2023-03-01T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:36:57","slug":"do-you-now-believe-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/do-you-now-believe-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDo You Now Believe?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>\u201cBy this we believe\u2026.\u201d Jesus answered them, \u201cDo you now believe?\u201d \u2014John 16:30-31<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cNow we believe\u2026.\u201d But Jesus asks, \u201cDo you\u2026? Indeed the hour is coming\u2026that you\u2026will leave Me alone\u201d (John 16:31-32). Many Christian workers have left Jesus Christ alone and yet tried to serve Him out of a sense of duty, or because they sense a need as a result of their own discernment. The reason for this is actually the absence of the resurrection life of Jesus. Our soul has gotten out of intimate contact with God by leaning on our own religious understanding (see Proverbs 3:5-6). This is not deliberate sin and there is no punishment attached to it. But once a person realizes how he has hindered his understanding of Jesus Christ, and caused uncertainties, sorrows, and difficulties for himself, it is with shame and remorse that he has to return.<br>We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus on a much deeper level than we do now. We should get in the habit of continually seeking His counsel on everything, instead of making our own commonsense decisions and then asking Him to bless them. He cannot bless them; it is not in His realm to do so, and those decisions are severed from reality. If we do something simply out of a sense of duty, we are trying to live up to a standard that competes with Jesus Christ. We become a prideful, arrogant person, thinking we know what to do in every situation. We have put our sense of duty on the throne of our life, instead of enthroning the resurrection life of Jesus. We are not told to \u201cwalk in the light\u201d of our conscience or in the light of a sense of duty, but to \u201cwalk in the light as He is in the light\u2026\u201d (1 John 1:7). When we do something out of a sense of duty, it is easy to explain the reasons for our actions to others. But when we do something out of obedience to the Lord, there can be no other explanation\u2014 just obedience. That is why a saint can be so easily ridiculed and misunderstood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy this we believe\u2026.\u201d Jesus answered them, \u201cDo you now believe?\u201d \u2014John 16:30-31 \u201cNow we believe\u2026.\u201d But Jesus asks, \u201cDo you\u2026? Indeed the hour is coming\u2026that you\u2026will leave Me alone\u201d (John 16:31-32). Many Christian workers have left Jesus Christ alone and yet tried to serve Him out of a sense of duty, or because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}