Some basic characteristics of God’s will (Cont)

We are saved to serve Christ and build up his Church
Yes, God has created you with a reason to fulfil an important role in His kingdom. It is “in” Jesus, and “through” Jesus that you can discover, understand and walk in His purposes. Jesus Himself said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6).

As the Way, Jesus is our path to the Father. As the Truth, He is the reality of all God’s promises. As the Life, He joins His divine life to ours, both now and eternally.

Jesus wants to be Your way, Your truth, and Your life. In Him and through Him are the Father’s will for you.
“And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day,” (Jn 6:40).

“The will of him who sent me.” It is important to understand the relationship of the Father’s will to human responsibility.
• It is not the will of God that any believer should fall from grace (cf. Gal 5:4) and subsequently be separated from God; neither is it His will that any individual should perish (2 Pet 3:9) or fail to come to the truth and be saved (1 Tim 2:4).

• However, there is a great difference between God’s desires for us and wrong human choices. He does not abrogate the human responsibility to repent and believe, even if it means His perfect will is not done (see Luke 19:41, on Jesus weeping over Jerusalem). He beheld the city and wept.

Jesus, knowing that the people and their leaders expect a political Messiah and will ultimately reject Him as God’s promised Messiah, wept in pity for the people who will soon suffer terrible judgment. The word “wept” in Greek means more than shedding of tears. It suggests a lamentation, a wailing, a heaving of the bosom – the sob and the cry of a soul in agony. Jesus, as God, revealed not only His own feelings, but also God’s broken heart over the lost of human race and their refusal to repent and accept salvation (see Mark 11:9).

• God’s desire that believers be raised up at the last day does not relieve them of the responsibility of obeying His voice and following Him (10:27; 14:21). Jesus acknowledged on the night of His betrayal that He protected His disciples and “those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition,” (17:12).
Servanthood

“After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded,” (Jn 13:5).

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