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God User or Christ Follower?

September 25, 2022 • Willie Bester

“When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” John‬ ‭6:25-29‬ ‭NIV‬‬

This week we are looking at the sermon by Willie Bester entitled “God User or Christ Follower?”

Let us remember that Jesus is the One who deserves our worship, our attention and our time. Sometimes it is easy to fall into the trap of celebrating the miracle or the thing that God did and miss celebrating God in the process. Jesus is here to be our daily bread, not just to provide us with bread when we need it. He is looking for us to seek Him first; to seek His face and not just His hands.

Yes, God desires to give us what we need - He is the Provider after all! He is a good father and provides everything we need and sometimes things we didn’t know we needed. But when we start focussing more on the things that we can get from God than on who He is to us, we become God users and not Christ followers. His desire is for us to have a close relationship with Him. We are precious to the Father, and He wants to be precious to us as well. Think about something or someone who is precious to you. You are willing to give up everything for that person, and they are enough for you. You don’t care what they have recently done or haven’t done for you, you just want to spend time with them. That is how God wants us to see Him. God wants to be precious to us.

So, whether that thing you’ve been trusting for has happened yet or not, God is still our prize and He is enough for us. We can trust Him with the process because if He never did anything for us ever again, we are 100% content with our Father. Maybe it’s time to stop trying to make that thing work in our own strength, and just let the Father sort it out.

Here are some questions to ponder:

How do I see Jesus - as someone who is useful to me, or as someone who is precious?

God is our daily bread - what is He saying to me today?

Is there possibly an opportunity for me to repent to God for trying to do it in my own strength instead of relying on Him, or for focussing on what He can give me instead of focussing on Him?

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