Look at this from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
From that time many of His
disciples went back, and walked no more with Him. — John 6:66
When God gives a vision by His Spirit through His word of what
He wants, and your mind and soul thrill to it, if you do not walk in the light
of that vision, you will sink into servitude to a point of view which Our Lord
never had. Disobedience in mind to the heavenly vision will make you a slave to
points of view that are alien to Jesus Christ. Do not look at someone else and
say – Well, if he can have those views and prosper, why cannot I? You have to
walk in the light of the vision that has been given to you and not compare
yourself with others or judge them, that is between them and God. When you find
that a point of view in which you have been delighting clashes with the
heavenly vision and you debate, certain things will begin to develop in you – a
sense of property and a sense of personal right, things of which Jesus Christ
made nothing. He was always against these things as being the root of
everything alien to Himself. "A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance
of the things that he possesseth." If we do not recognize this, it is
because we are ignoring the undercurrent of Our Lord’s teaching
We
are apt to lie back and bask in the memory of the wonderful experience we have
had. If there is one standard in the New Testament revealed by the light of God
and you do not come up to it, and do not feel inclined to come up to it, that
is the beginning of backsliding, because it means your conscience does not
answer to the truth. You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth.
That moment marks you for going on as a more true disciple of Jesus Christ or
for going back as a deserter.
What he is saying here is that once we KNOW what God wants us to do and where He wants us to be, we cannot claim that we do not know! We are held responsible for what we had the opportunity to know and to do! This attitude will affect our quality of life here on earth AND our rewards in Heaven! WE are in control of our own destiny by the choices that we make, DAILY! Do YOU know what God wants in YOUR life? Well, DO IT! AMEN! That is the place where great blessings begin! The place of obedience! Now GO and get the job done! Here is Hillsong United with "Go":
Shalom in Him!
