Jesus asked this question to the first two disciples who left their position under John the Baptist’s teaching and literally went and physically followed Jesus.
John 1:38 tells us, “Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them.” Seems like a funny question, doesn’t it? But a great one that we can ask ourselves.
What do you want?
I would venture to say this is a question that everyone faces, at some point in their life or another. We need to decide what we want. What’s going to govern our lives? What’s going to be the driving force behind where you’re going to end up? And what you’re going to achieve?
Paul writes about the same thing in his letter to the Galatians. He writes about how freedom comes through the finished work of Jesus’ blood shed on the cross. He writes about the internal turmoil we all face –be a slave to sin or to live surrendered to Christ. The conflicting desires are constantly at war against each other. Because of this, I’m convinced that there are many Christians’ who have the gift of Salvation but don’t live in freedom it gives us. We’re trapped in our own prison cells with the door open but won’t walk out the door to where freedom awaits… where we breathe-in the freedom of a Spirit-filled life that breaks down doors and loosens chains so that we can turn away from the sin that’s entangling us and walk closer with Jesus.
Jesus’ invitation to us, says “Come and discover for yourselves.” (ref. John 1:39). Come and see what freedom looks like. Feels like. Tastes like. Sounds like. Come and see what He's all about and where He's going to take you. Come and don’t turn back to the ways you walked before. Walk with the Holy Spirit and let Him take you to places where you’ll soar. A place of grace, and love, and freedom.
“As you yield freely and fully to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self-life. For your self-life craves the things that offend the Holy Spirit and hinder him from living free within you! And the Holy Spirit’s intense cravings hinder your old self-life from dominating you! So then, the two incompatible and conflicting forces within you are your self-life of the flesh and the new creation life of the Spirit. But when you are brought into the full freedom of the Spirit of grace, you will no longer be living under the domination of the law, but soaring above it!” – Galatians 5:16-18 (TPT)
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