February 13, 2019 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Does God Consider You ‘Just’?

Series: The Ethical Christian

I thought I was a just person until the Holy Spirit began to talk with me about Joseph. As I said in the last article, God said Joseph was a just man. I began to ask the question, “What does God consider a just person to be?” This journey opened up to me a new and elaborate definition as to being ‘a just person’.

Joseph was a just person and because of this quality of being just. God could entrust His Son, Jesus, to be raised and protected by Joseph. Joseph accepted the task and request by God to nurture and protect Jesus from all His enemies until He was grown enough to protect Himself. I wonder if God would have called you to protect His Son? Are you that ‘just person’ who has courage, obedience, determination, and wisdom to have Jesus in your household?

My question to you is, “Are you that ‘just person’ as Joseph was, or Ruth—the grandmother of David, or Peter that Jesus asked to ‘feed my sheep’?

Justice goes even further—being just means accepting God living with you, as Jesus lived in Joseph’s house. Can God entrust to you Himself with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? Are you worthy enough to have God Himself, a third part of the Trinity, to live within you? This was the question the early church wrestled with in the Book of Acts. Many people within the church are not worthy! God does not consider them just. Oh, yes they have a relationship with Jesus Christ but they have not become ‘a just person’.

A just person is an ethical person. A just person puts God first in all things he or she does and who they become. A just person lives for God, not themselves. God honors a just person. They are not the people who Jesus will say in the last days, “I never knew you.”

To be just is to exercise justice and to exercise justice means that God considers you worthy enough to have Him—all that is God—to live with you and be in you.

“God, make me a just person. I want all of you living in me and I accept whatever your will is to do my part in fulfilling what you place before me. I will protect you within me and protect the Holy Spirit living in me. God let me be like Joseph, like Ruth, like Peter—give me your justice to perform in the earth.” This is what Jesus wants me to do!

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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