A “Lordship Believer”
Christians, just like most people, start out the new year with the intent on setting goals, “new years resolutions”, with the desire to do better this year than last year on a broad spectrum of habits. Well, this year I would like to issue a challenge to view your goals from a different perspective. Instead of trying to “do better”, what if we did them to please the LORD. The Bible says: “Delight yourself in the
LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 We have discussed before that this does not mean God grants wishes, but that He causes our desires to line up with His, thus giving us the correct desires. You see, if we delight in what delights the LORD, we are achieving goals for a different purpose. Instead of achieving them just to make ourselves better, we are achieving them to please the One we are in love with. We should be in love with our LORD.
A Christian believer can be motivated by many things. A religious “check list”, a desire to improve, a desire to get God to do something for them, the idea that if we do “good deeds” God will give us more righteous points…on and on it goes. But I submit to you that if you aim to love God and do good out of a desire to please Him, that is more inline with God’s delight. A “Lordship Believer”, I’m calling them, says “I will live today to please the One I love, my LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. Because I love Him, I will be driven by God’s purposes and see victory in my life because I operate under His loving Lordship. I don’t mind at all when God instructs me or tells me not to do something because I know when He gives me commandments, it is because He loves me enough to speak truth and protective direction into me. He will never lead me astray. And today I will obey because I love Him”.
A Christian believer can be motivated by many things. A religious “check list”, a desire to improve, a desire to get God to do something for them, the idea that if we do “good deeds” God will give us more righteous points…on and on it goes. But I submit to you that if you aim to love God and do good out of a desire to please Him, that is more inline with God’s delight. A “Lordship Believer”, I’m calling them, says “I will live today to please the One I love, my LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. Because I love Him, I will be driven by God’s purposes and see victory in my life because I operate under His loving Lordship. I don’t mind at all when God instructs me or tells me not to do something because I know when He gives me commandments, it is because He loves me enough to speak truth and protective direction into me. He will never lead me astray. And today I will obey because I love Him”.
John 14:15 “If you love Me, obey My commandments”. This is what Jesus said to us and I read in one commentary that what He was saying is: “Loving Me empowers you to obey My commands.” That’s it exactly. When you really love someone, really love the LORD, it will give you all the motivation you need to fulfill the goals this year that will please Him. Blessings upon each of you in 2026 as you embark on a journey to celebrate Victory under His LORDSHIP.
