One step forward and two steps back or two steps forward and one step back.  How is our walk with the Lord going?  Here are 6 points from our passages this week which I feel are things that we need to be regularly asking ourselves about and dwelling on in our daily Christian Walk.

Our sinfulness: In Luke 15:18 the prodigal son in his desperate situation announces, “I have sinned before heaven and against you” v19 “I am no longer worthy to be called your son”.  He recognizes he is in a terrible fix. Do we regularly acknowledge to God that we are in a terrible fix?

Our desperate need of Him:  The Psalmist in Ps 32:3 says “For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away” Do we withhold our acknowledgement to God of our desperate need of Him or do we let him know we need him?

God’s forgiveness and redemption: 2 Cor 5:18,19 says “God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them”.  Do we regularly acknowledge the saving work of God in Christ on the cross and cling to it?

Beware of entitlement and jealousy: The brother of the prodigal son in Luke15:29 said to his father “Look, these many years I have served you and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends”.  How often do we feel that the rich blessings that we experience are a normal state of being to which we are entitled and think that we should have what others have?

We are a new creation: In 2 Cor 5:17 it says “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”  Do we acknowledge and celebrate this fact that God has made us a new creation? In Christ our old selves that were slaves to sin have been made new!

We are ambassadors: Paul declares of himself and his fellow teachers in 2 Cor 5:20 that “we are ambassadors for Christ.  God making his appeal through us”.  Do we have the maturity in faith and knowledge that we can confidently put ourselves forward and make this declaration? EDE