To whom do you pray?  Do you see God, do you know him or is he some foreign misunderstood concept or wishing well into which you cast your thoughtful pennies?  Is your salvation assured?  Do you see the fruits of God’s Spirit reflected within your own life, guaranteeing eternity and creating curious inquiry?  Are your familiar with Christ, do you know the power of his witness are you on speaking terms?  Since our re-birth may not be measured due to anything that we have done, what proof have you?

My sin makes me feel horrible, especially the sins that I appear incapable of eradicating?  But this is a good thing right?  This is evidence of Spirit’s guidance, rebuke, chastening proving that I am a child, loved by God.  This provides me some ground for familiarity with God’s Holy Spirit, but it shows no measure of my conversion.  I may hear good advice, but the proof that I heard and obeyed that good advice is always in my demonstrated willingness to heed that advice through personal change that clearly establish verified belief.  So, have I been changed by God, transformed into a new creature as he promised.  Well, that requires reflection.  What do you say, are you someone different after having found salvation through Christ?  Do you act different, avoid the old infected pathways, use different language, handle situations with self-control, peace and love rather than slander or anger?  Well something has happened, now we need to make sure that its not just good self-help study.

Faith in Christ, requires belief in Christ to the point where we trust him to provide for all our needs through his riches and glory.  Have you stopped trying to solve perpetual problems within your own talents, techniques or energy?  Have you stopped looking to other humans to save you from circumstantial discomfort, relying upon Christ to deliver you in his timing or determination?  Have you been chastened to the point where you fear God’s wrath, not because you will suffer it but out of thankfulness that you are no longer designated to go through it, although you are willing to if that be God’s Will.  Do you have a hunger for his word, a desire to spend time with believers, a new found love for people or an overwhelming drive to remain pure as his intended bride?

These are the evidences we seek as believers.  The bible says, my sheep know my voice and another they will not follow.  This means we are supposed to recognize the voice of our Shepherd to a level that we can distinguish from all other voices, especially those who may cunningly attempt to deceive us.  Do you know Jesus’s voice?  Can you distinguish other voices, the enemy’s, flesh, false friends and purveyors of false doctrine?  Does this give you courage?  If I can distinguish false voices and only obey the one coming from my master will I continue to make the mistakes associated with my pride of life, pride of the eye or sins of the flesh.  Doesn’t my ability to discern these voices relinquish any excuse I previously may have held with regard to the responsibility for my continued sin?  Man truth and evidence are hard to refute.

I pray that the evidence of your familiarity with the Lord Jesus Christ be unmistakable to all whom you meet.  May his light, his love, his heart guide your life to each divine opportunity that you have been blessed to attend.  May you keep your eyes heaven ward and continue to tend the ground before you in anxious and victorious knowledge of the harvest to come.  Praise God in the name of Jesus.