Who Do You Say that I Am?

     As we continue our walk with the Lord, we begin to see Him  and His Will more clearly. The bumps along the way, and the setbacks ,it seems, are often used by Him to accomplish that. Even when "wolves" try to come close and offer their "truths" to us on a silver platter, if our hearts are genuinely turned to Him, He is able to use that temptation and pressure too, to turn our hearts even more fully to His, and to fine tune our spiritual eyes and ears. Oh, the work of God on the inside of us! How mysterious and marvelous are your ways. Going through the darkness can cause us to be afraid, and then suddenly a ray of light at the end of the tunnel, and we come out of it even more secure in Him!!! Amazing!
     Standing secure in what He has shown us as we walk this walk is so important, while at the same time holding it loosely. This sounds double-minded, but it's not. Let me explain. If He has revealed truth to us concerning His Will, we can believe it, but we don't have to try and convince others of the truth He's shown to us. This could really be unbelief on our part, and we are wanting consensus to help us be sure of the truth we really have doubt about. If it is True, we can rest in that, and we can know the Spirit of God leads into all truth, and He will lead others in this also, so we don't have to pressure them to believe it. God will do the work, so we can be at peace in it. He may have us present the truth in word and deed, but to continue to show them "until they break," is not from the Spirit of God: it is an attempt to control them.
     "Who do you (the reader) say that I am?" Christ asks us today as He did Peter many years ago. We must all answer that question, stick to it in rest, but be humbly opened to His voice to correct and fine tune our understanding, as we all see through a glass darkly. The refining of our soul must be a part of this process of hearing and seeing, as when He changes us we change the way we hear His truth. It sounds complicated, but it's not. If our desire is to do the will of God and we have surrendered to Him and His ways, it will be done in us. He will keep us from falling!!!