As I read Luke 22:35-36 Jesus asked his disciples, “when I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. Jesus was referring Luke 9:1-6 where he’d sent out the twelve disciples and give them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all diseases, taking nothing for their journey. He said to them, “But now if you have  a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. What this is allowing us to understand, God equips us with what is needed to do his will through our obedience to him.

I’ve spent my entire life trying to live honest according to the teachings of Jesus and all he taught his disciples as written in the scriptures. I’ve been following and listening faithfully to the ones who supposedly called by the Lord as shepherds over his flocks, such as Bishops, Pastors, any leaders of the church. I truly believe that all of them like Jesus disciples after his life death and resurrection, were deserving of trust in their faithfulness to follow through on his will. Sadly enough, but the imperfections of man always shows it’s truth, leaving all of us feeling some how deceived and ever so let down to not trust ever again the institutions of religion (churches). But they are just man, not God, is my realization with their strengths and weaknesses, the frailties of man, which equals to imperfections. Man, to whom the more than ever, we must not put our Faith in, but only God himself.

Forgiveness: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing, Luke 23:34. “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.” Mark 11:25. “Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times? Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.” Matthew 18:21-22. For so many of us we rather in our anguish go to hell, than to forgive someone. Forgiveness is a gift from God to us to pass on to others, like grace.

If Jesus never took credit for anything he has done, all is done through him by the Father. John 5:19, 5:30, 8:28. We also must have that kind of humility, concerning the will of God. Even though Jesus was in the form of God, he emptied himself, (Phil. 2:5-8) and made for a while lower than the angels, became man, (psalm 8:5). He was also under the law,Gal.4:4). That’s the reason we knew according to scriptures he grew in wisdom and stature ( Luke 2:52). Col.2:9 says that in Jesus “dwells all the fullness of the Godhead and bodily form.” Therefore, Jesus is both divine and human in one person. He was a man as well as divine, but the divine nature, like the spirit with flesh so to speak, worked together even with the limitations of humanity (flesh) in order to fulfill the law, and God will. We ourselves can be the same as Jesus by following Jesus.

“It is God’s will be done, not ours.” Jesus surrendered himself to it and we like him, have to now surrender ourselves to Jesus, who’s one with the Father. Your thought has to be in one with Jesus’s. We are not to move until Jesus in us move, we’re not to speak until the voice of Jesus in us speaks, and we’re not to walk until the feet of Jesus in us walks. United together as one, one body, mind and spirit, three in one and one in three. Not of our own individuality and power like so many of us who loves power and control.

The other thing I’ve learned is you don’t always have to be present to do the will of God. It take Faith from wherever you are to send out energy to make the impossible, possible, that’s sometimes the only work we must do. Matthew 8:8 ” The centurion (Roman soldier) answered and said,”Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof. But speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.”

You don’t have to necessarily be seen and heard to be glorified by God. Matthew 6:6 “When you pray, go into your closet and when you have shut the door, pray to the Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly. A lot of people don’t get this, because when they see you blessed and highly favored, they often wondering, why?

It takes obedience and willingness to submit to God’s will by choice, it can really make the difference for our lives as human beings, even with our imperfections.