How do you make decisions? (John 5:16-30)

How do you decide what you are doing for the week, now let’s narrow it down to what you do in a day?  What is it that causes you do the things you do in a day?  I have given this some thought these last couple of days and realized that my days are surrounded by lists of things I have to do, I have to take the dogs out first thing in the morning, I have to go to work, I have to …  you get the picture.  But does that really tell me how to live my life?  Is that what causes me to do what I do?  I’m I doing these things because of the people around me expect me to do them so I do them to please them and look good in their eyes?  What is really the driving force behind what I do?  Christ healed a man on the Sabbath, a lot of people got mad at Him for doing so.  They harassed Him for working on the Sabbath and breaking their rules.  Christ responded with saying “My Father never stops working, so why should I?”(Jn 5:16)  Right there in the question tells us what motivated Christ it was His Father, He did what he did to honor His Father, not the people around Him. 

Christ did not worry about what others thought of Him, He only worried about what His Father in Heaven thought.  He loved Him so He honored Him.  We to must make our decisions in life to honor God, notice that Christ was more interested in bringing people to know who God was.  It was through His being focused on God His father that He was able to show people who God was.  When we go to work we should work hard to honor God not to honor ourselves or get rises and promotion.  When people ask are you working hard to impress the boss you can say, “no I work hard to honor God.” It is through honoring God that we are able to show people who God is. 

Christ Said “I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.”(Jn5:19)  Where did Christ learn to act? He learned by seeing what God the Father did.  We learn how to honor God by seeing how Christ acted it is through studying the Bible, and prayer that we learn how to honor and live for God.  Paul told the Colossians of how he has heard of their faithfulness and how they honor God by how they live in the first part of chapter one, he also tells in verse fifteen “Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before God made anything at all and is supreme over all creation.”(Col 1:15)  If Christ learned how to live by seeing God, then we are to learn how to live by seeing how Christ lived His life on earth.