Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Friday, 5 January 2018 "What’s The Condition Of Your Heart?" by Susie Shellenberger - John 6:39-49

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Friday, 5 January 2018 "What’s The Condition Of Your Heart?" by Susie Shellenberger - John 6:39-49
John 6:39 And this is the will of the One who sent me: that I should not lose any of all those he has given me but should raise them up on the Last Day. 40 Yes, this is the will of my Father: that all who see the Son and trust in him should have eternal life, and that I should raise them up on the Last Day.”
41 At this the Judeans began grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread which has come down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Isn’t this Yeshua Ben-Yosef? We know his father and mother! How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Yeshua answered them, “Stop grumbling to each other! 44 No one can come to me unless the Father — the One who sent me — draws him. And I will raise him up on the Last Day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by Adonai.’[John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God — he has seen the Father. 47 Yes, indeed! I tell you, whoever trusts has eternal life: 48 I am the bread which is life. 49 Your fathers ate the man in the desert; they died.
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Good educators challenge us to become our best. I’ve had some teachers for whom I’ll forever be grateful. I had a college professor who gave me extra time when I struggled with a specific assignment. I still remember her kindness. I also had a teacher who allowed me to substitute what had been assigned and allowed me to create something else. I’ll never forget her inspiration that allowed my creativity to flow. I had another teacher who taught me that I could when I believed I couldn’t. I have taken the lessons learned from these precious educators and have woven them into my lifestyle.
But the best teacher I’ve ever had wasn’t limited to a classroom. In fact, He’s still teaching me. He pours His mercy over me when I don’t pass one of the tests of life. He heals my heart. He makes me more like Him. And as long as I maintain a teachable heart, God will be faithful to keep guiding. What’s the condition of your heart? Are you teachable?
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Hymn for Today: "Teach Me Thy Way,  O Lord" by B. Mansell Ramsey
1. Teach me Your way, O Lord, teach me Your way!
Your guiding grace afford, teach me Your way!
Help me to walk aright, more by faith, less by sight;
lead me with heavenly light, teach me Your way!
2. When I am sad at heart, teach me Your way!
When earthly joys depart, teach me Your way!
In hours of loneliness, in times of dire distress,
in failure or success, teach me Your way!
3. When doubts and fears arise, teach me Your way!
When storm clouds fill the skies, teach me Your way!
Shine through the wind and rain, through sorrow, grief and pain;
make now my pathway plain, teach me Your way!
4. Long as my life shall last, teach me Your way!
Where’er my lot be cast, teach me Your way!
Until the race is run, until the journey’s done,

until the crown is won, teach me Your way!
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Thought for Today: “I will instruct and teach you
in this way that you are to go;
I will give you counsel;
my eyes will be watching you.”(Psalm 32:8)
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Please pray: For the development of Christian leaders in Jordan.
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