THE JOY OF CENTERING OUR LIVES IN JESUS.

SONG:

 Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Break me, mold me fill me and use me. Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

TEXT:

 "Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels." (Jeremiah  chapter 18:3).

" But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy Hand" (Isaiah chapter 64 verse 8).

Centering our lives in Jesus Christ and His Gospel will bring stability and happiness to our lives.

The world we live in is similar to the potter’s spinning wheel. As long as the clay is at the centre of the Potter's wheel, there will no problems with the vessel, but not otherwise.

    Like the clay on the potter’s wheel, we must be centered in Christ Jesus. Our core, the center of our lives, must be Jesus Christ and His gospel.

Our lives must be centered with exactness in Christ if we are to find true joy and peace in this life. In other words, if we are to have fulfilled lives, we must make the LORD JESUS our focal point, our nucleus and our core. There are no two ways about it.

I regard JESUS as the number One. Without Him, we are nothing and we can do nothing. He is the Center that holds everything about us together. The Bible, in Colossians chapter 1verse 17 echoes this truth saying,

"And he is before all things, and by him all things consist"

JESUS existed before everything else began, and He holds all of God's creation together.

If our lives are centered in Jesus Christ, He is able to mold us into who God wants us to be. All we need to do is to receive Him into our lives and to live a surrendered life to Him.

    The joy and fulfilment we experience in this life will be in direct proportion to how well our lives are centered on the teachings of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Living a Christ-centered life means we learn about Jesus Christ and His Gospel and then we follow His footsteps as our Example, and keeping His commandments with exactness.

The world in which we live is putting great pressure on good people everywhere to lower or even abandon their standards of righteous living. However, despite the evils and temptations that surround us each day, we can and will find true joy today in living a Christ-centered life.

PRAYER:

Thank you Lord Jesus, for in you I live, move and have my being. I surrender totally to you to make me what you want me to be, in Jesus name. 🙏 🙏🙏