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In our lives as Christians we are continually brought to make judgments. Should we
marry this person? Should we take employment with a particular company? What
fellowship of believers should we participate with? Should we buy a certain item?
Where should we live? How should we respond to a crisis in our life? Such decisions,
and a host of others, are a part of our everyday lives. How are we to decide?
The way that the world makes decisions is to examine the things that their eyes see
and their ears hear and choose a course based upon the physical evidence before
them. The decision making process remains totally in the realm of natural
observation and rational thought. As Christians, however, we are called to walk
differently.
Consider this prophecy of Christ. He never made a judgment or decision based upon
what His eyes saw or His ears heard. How then did He decide? We are told plainly
in the gospels. He received instruction from His Father in heaven and did only what
His Father directed Him to do. Yahshua walked in spiritual life. He was always
beholding the Father, and He lived to do the will of the Father. He was so perfect in
this that He did not even speak a word of His own initiative, but only spoke the
things that the Father gave Him to speak.
John 8:28
So Yahshua said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He,
and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught
Me.”
John 12:49-50
"For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has
given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His
commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father
has told Me."
Yahshua did not get up in the morning and think to Himself, “What do I want to
teach the people today? What do these people need to hear?” He began His ministry
only after the Spirit descended upon Him at the Jordan, and He was led of the Spirit
in all things. The Spirit taught Him what to speak and led Him in every encounter.
Yahshua practiced every day that which He gave as an instruction to the saints:
Mark 13:11
“When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you
are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but
it is the Holy Spirit.”
