Our Hotline Connection

UV3252/10000 Our Hotline Connection

This is the one who was mentioned by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “ The voice of one shouting in the wilderness, “Prepare the road for the Lord, Make His highways straight.”

John 3 v 3

This uni-verse a throw back to Isaiah 40 v 3 proclaims the fulfilment of prophecy that a messenger would be sent ahead of the Lord, the Messiah. Just as a person in authority or a king has a messenger or herald going before him to prepare the way, to warn bystanders in the way, John The Baptist was sent ahead of Jesus. John had two messages in one that is relevant to this day- prepare our hearts for Jesus and then live a life worthy of the Lord. We prepare our hearts by repentance or godly sorrow at what we have done and not done, our sins of omission and commission. We then resolve not to repeat these, to make amends and to walk on the straight paths of the Lord.

God’s ways being much higher, infinitely higher than our knowledge, understanding or perception, He sent Jesus as the Way, the Highway that led all mankind direct to Him without any detours. Jesus is now our hotline connection with God. We are to hear His words and walk according to it. This is the reason John the apostle calls Him the Word. Any and every issue we can now go direct to the Lord. He is the Yes and Amen to all God’s promises. Hitherto we lived according to our own lights, according to what we understood of the world and of ourselves and others, but hereafter, we live in accordance with the "High Way" of the Lord, the precepts, priorities and values of the kingdom of God, the principles and priorities of heaven. To live on Earth with the values of Heaven is the most adventurous, challenging, risky as well as most blessed and rewarding life anyone can ever live.

. What this uni-verse entails is that we need to directly relate to the Almighty through only one Mediator who mediated our salvation, comprehensively or in all its aspects. We are to commit ourselves to a life of continual change for the better in accordance with the Word. The change of heart or attitudes need to be reflected in changes in our thought, words, actions, reactions or behavior pattern. When concrete hardens, it takes all types of misshapen forms. Likewise without a wise Mentor like Jesus, our lives and our heart attitudes harden in misshapen forms. Now that we have Jesus in our hearts, we need to allow the work of the Spirit of God to break these misshapen forms and mould us to the imagus Deus- or the image of Christ.