Being Led By Integrity

Prov 11:3

3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the willful contrariness and crookedness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
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Mal 3:6

6 "For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.

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My Comments:

One of the ways in which we know we can be led by God is by checking whether whatever decisions we make has integrity in it.

Merriam-Webster defines the word integrity as follows:

firm adherance to a code of especially moral or artistic values

Webster's 1913 Dictionary refers to it as "moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive"

Note that God says of Himself that He does not change. We know that the Bible says He's the same yesterday, today and tomorrow (Heb 13:8). Therefore, that moral set of directions that He's given us won't change either.

It is foolishness for a Christian to make a decision or perform any action that violates the very nature of God, and then claim "I was led by God to do said action". God won't contradict Himself and lead you into doing things that He told you not to do. It would be unjust then for Him to judge you for doing the thing He "led" you to do in the first place!

I'll use a classic example from the Ten Commandments of "You shall not steal" to illustrate the point. As above, we defined integrity as firmly adhering to a moral code. Given that God has said "You shall not steal", we can use that as a measuring rod to judge any impressions or leadings we may have. If we find ourselves having a leading to steal something that doesn't belong to us, we can know that that is definitely not God telling us to do it!

At times we may have a supernatural leading from God, at times we may not have a supernatural leading from Him. But we know that with or without that leading, as we walk in integrity; it will be one of the guiding points in us determining whether we will be led by Him or by another.

Being Led Because We Are His Children!

Rom 8:14

14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
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My Comments:

This would probably be the first of a few posts that I'll do concerning getting direction from God. I believe this is necessary as we start off the year. 

As much as we enter 2014 with a lot of hopes and expectations, we also know that there is much uncertainty about how things will be in the future. In times of uncertainty, any major decisions that we make will be crucial and of utmost importance in the shaping of our destiny.

We have a promise given by God however, that we can be led by Him! 

Paul, in writing to the Church in Rome, made this profound statement, that children of God would be led by Him! [paraphrased Romans 8:14]. The question would then be who would qualify to be a child of God, in order to be led by Him?

John gives us the answer in his Gospel:

John 1:12

12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

The Bible tells us that this "he" that John speaks about is none other than Jesus, because if we were to read John 1:1-16, we can see that the mentioned portion of Scripture refers to Jesus, the only begotten Son of God.

In the third chapter of John's Gospel, we also see John writing the verse that everyone who is a Christian (and even those who aren't Christians) would know:

John 3:16

16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Therefore because we believe that Jesus came, died for our sin, paid the price for us to be brought back to God, and rose again for us, we can be children of God! Notice also that in all three verses that I've put up, the phrases "to all", "everyone", "all" have been highlighted in red. This means that as you choose to believe in Jesus and make Him your Savior, you qualify to be led by God as much as I qualify to be led by Him! God has no favorites in the sense that He chooses to lead someone in a "better" way than others. He'll lead all of us without any bias!

And as such, we can be led by Him in all areas of our life, whether big or small!