If you are living with Christ, then you should walk as He walked. John the Baptist mentions contentment when he was asked about what we must do. “And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” So the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?” He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.” Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed for you.” Likewise, the soldiers asked him, saying, “And what shall we do?” So he said to them, “Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.” Being content is not having to strive to get more, rather it’s so the enemy doesn’t have something to come against you with. “Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.” The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches will choke your walk with Christ.
While Jesus was here on earth, He showed us how to walk as God walks. “Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” His disciples couldn’t even understand that Jesus was walking as Father would walk. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” Godliness is the quality or practice of conforming to the laws and wishes of God; devoutness and moral uprightness. Jesus walked in godliness and the early church, who were called Christians, were Christ-like ones, they walked as Christ did. Being a Christian has nothing to do with going to church, but with looking like Christ. Jesus did say that you will do greater works so people would believe that Jesus is alive and active, He did rise from the dead. “But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”
I pray the eyes of your understanding to be enlightened by this. Remember, “If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, EVEN THE WORDS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, and to THE DOCTRINE WHICH ACCORDS TO GODLINESS, he is proud, KNOWING NOTHING, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of MEN OF CORRUPT MINDS and destitute of the truth, WHO SUPPOSE THAT GODLINESS IS A MEANS OF GAIN. FROM SUCH WITHDRAW YOURSELF. Now GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN.” Be blessed, my friends
