The Longing of My Heart

What does it mean to you to be a disciple?
To look just like the teacher you follow.

This has been the longing of my heart for years. The problem that I have found is what does my teacher, the Lord Jesus Christ, really look like?

I spent years of my life looking at Him through the glasses of religion and when the road got really tough the religion I thought was my teacher failed me.

My fall was hard and long, God by His great mercy, brought me back to Himself, but religion was deeply embedded in my mind and heart. My desire to “know Him” was still a driving force that kept me looking for Him. I knew that if I didn’t quit one day I world find the true Jesus, the one who had birthed a desire in me that nothing else could satisfy.

I started this journey at age 12, unfortunately I was on my own for most of the time and as a result I have taken many detours. I am now 62 and finally on a track of truth that is the “Truth”.

I am still seeking to be a true disciple. I believe His word is true. Heb 11:6 states “Without faith it is impossible to please Him for He is a rewarded of those who diligently seek Him” and also as Paul said in Phil 1:6 “And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ (right to the time of His return), developing that good work) and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.” -Amp bible.

So I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I am “following in His dust” for the Father is seeking me for I am a true worshipper and my destiny is to worship Him in spirit and in truth and I will continue this quest for I am sure there is no end to this journey. This one thing I do know that the journey is as important as the destination.

What an exciting adventure this life is.

One in His dust
Lois Bridgeman

P.S. thank you so very much for such a wonderful teaching. Only the first session and already I am learning things I have questioned. I have always asked, for example why would these men, these followers of Jesus, leave everything and follow a carpenter’s son on just one “follow Me?” Now I know that to them He was not a carpenter’s son but a Rabbi, a teacher one who had the “words of life”.