WWJD? Not so fast...

W.W.J.D. - We've all heard it before... What Would Jesus Do?

I'd like to challenge the conventional thinking regarding WWJD as someone who has tried to do WWJD and failed many times.

Lets back up a step... the goal of the Christian life is not to do what Jesus would do... it is to become LIKE Jesus (and as a result do what He would do). The process of becomeing like Jesus is called Sanctification.

Oswald Chambers writes, "Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth, and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. Sancification means intense concentration on God's point of view."

It is a focus on character not actions. It is a focus on focus not what I DO.

Oswald continues, "Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. Are we prepared for what that will cost? It will cost everything that is not of God in us."

SEE THE DIFFERENCE? It is not what Jesus DID we should be focused on, but the disposition that ruled Him.

Finally, he concludes, "The one and only characteristic of Holy Ghost in a man is a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, and freedom from everything that is unlike Him."

SEE? It is not about DOING what Jesus would do. The Christian life is more than just trying to "be like" Jesus or "doing" what we think Jesus would do... All that requires human thought and effort and will - (which we will always eventually fail at!) and besides, that is not what Jesus was like or what He did. He just was in fellowship with the Father. Period. All He "did" or "was like" simply flowed out of being in close relationship with the Father. That is all we need!

Not WWJD.... But WAJW
(Walk As Jesus Walked) In fellowship with the Father.

Do do not ask yourself, "What Would Jesus Do?" Instead, activiely and agressively strive to walk in fellowship with God and HE will transform your actions as you walk in relationship with Him. The effort to "do what Jesus would do" fades and instead the effort is only in building the relationship with God. As you walk with Jesus He will take care of your actions.