“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”
– John 15:15-16
I think like so many, myself included, thought for so long that being a believer was a cultural thing. My dad was a pastor and my grandpa was a pastor, so I’d certainly had heard the Gospel. But I never decided to follow Jesus on my own. I remember looking in the mirror and feeling empty on the inside and looking in my own eyes and thinking gosh, my eyes, I look empty. They say the eyes are the window to the soul and I remember looking in my own reflection, just feeling like there wasn’t anything there. So then I went to a Pentecostal event at the convention center Anaheim full of 10,000 people worshiping God in a different way that I was familiar with, and I just wanted that. It was at that event that I told myself: I’m going to know Jesus personally. No one can know Jesus for me. No one can live as a disciple of Christ for me on my behalf. God wants to know me! Then a year later, after a night of worship and after I had received Christ, I looked in my eyes again. And this time, I saw a fire, life, and passion that wasn’t there before. And that’s what the Lord wants for all of us! |
Prayer
Thank you, God, for calling me to you. Thank you for my own personal access and relationship with you.
Reflection
Do you have fire for Jesus in your eyes?
