What Is God Asking of You?

I don’t know about you, but I can get caught believing …Grace paves our way to heaven, so we don’t have to do anything.
Recently, God’s been showing me just how much false teaching has been slipping into my thinking.
In studying scripture, something I had never considered before was revealed to me…Jesus frequently asked people for things. 

It was like a light-bulb went off in my head and I started making the connection…

• Jesus asked the woman at the well for water. (John 4:7-10)
• Jesus asked for His cousin John to be baptized by him. (Matt. 3:13-17)
• Jesus asked for Zacchaeus to come down, and to go to his house. (Luke 19:1-10)
• Jesus asked the servants to fill the water pots with water, then to take  them to the head waiter. (John 2:1-11)
• Jesus asked the disciples to feed the 5,000. (Matt 14:13-21)
• Jesus asked the blind man to go wash in the pool of Siloam. (John 9:1-7)
• Jesus asked for the stone to be moved and for the unwrapping of Lazarus. (John 11:1-45)
• Jesus asks for material possessions, to give what one has to the poor. (Matt. 19:21)

And I realized, Jesus didn’t just ask for tangible things, He also asked for our personal steps of faithfulness.

I mean, Jesus is God incarnate, right? He could have done every miracle apart from us, but instead, more often, He chooses to connect the natural with the supernatural, the flawed with the forces of heaven, the faith with the Faithful One, so He could be glorified through us.
Spiritual calls in Scripture include:

• Jesus asks us to stay awake. (Luke 22:46, Matt 26:40)
• Jesus asks for our burning zeal to be seen by others. (Mark 4:21)

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