Lordship
can be generally defined as our personal relationship with God. Like the
marriage, the relationship with God is proven by a contract. Marriage
relationship are proven by the marriage contract while our Lordship is proven
by the Bible, specifically John 1: 12 which says that yet to all who received
him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become the
children of God. The main point of this verse is that those who have faith in
God are considered His son. When we have faith in God, it means that we trust
everything in our life to God making Him the Lord of our life. Many times, our
faith is challenged and many people easily lost their faith in God, but if we
are able to strongly maintain with God then our relationship with God will grow.
A relationship that doesn’t grow will become colder and breaks, like how
husband and wife ended in divorce, our relationship with God could break as
well. When we have a good Lordship, Philippians 4: 13 says that we can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me.
In
the world today, many people have neglected their relationship with God and
focus onto other things, such as the worldly materials wealth, fame, or power.
One of the obvious examples is the corruptions which are also clearly seen in Indonesia.
Corruption generally deals with the character of truthfulness which is surely
important to most of religions; therefore, by doing the corruption people no
longer care about their religion principles. Many people think that if they are
rich, they will have a good life; nevertheless, they don’t realize that God
could take everything away in a blink of an eye. One of my neighbors is an
unmarried lady who was rich and has a really good occupation. Later, a medical
check-up result shows her that she suffers a cancer; her condition was getting
worse every day. When we visit her, she confesses that she has not built her
relationship with God; all she ever cares about is her occupation. Now she
realized that her wealth is of no value and she regretted that she doesn’t have
a good Lordship; she has not build a good relation with God. The other example
could be Michael Jackson. He was a famous and wealthy artist, but he can’t
really enjoy his life with pain after going through many operations focusing on
his appearance and later leading him to death.
One
of the solutions to this problem was for people to start practicing Lordship at
their younger age. It is also difficult to build Lordship in the teen age with
so many distractions from the growing technology of the modern world. The
youngsters should be encouraged to join small religious groups or the church
community so that they may develop a strong Lordship. I recently started joining the rebirth life
group and according to my experience, I feel really blessed to actually have
someone being the mentor to listen to my life and to also help me align to
God’s purpose in my life. Many of the youngsters have a dream to become rich
and famous just like me; moreover, most of them forget about God’s will for
them in their big dream. This shows how easy someone falls into the worldly
materialism. Sometimes I myself to feel worried about making Jesus the Lord of
my life because my life will belong to God and my wills and dreams should align
with God’s; therefore, if God’s will and my will don’t align, I should let go
of my dreams. However, I should not worry because God has the best plan for me,
maybe I yet could not see all the benefit, but God’s dream for me should be
better than my own dream.
As a
conclusion, maintaining our Lordship is important for us to become a successful
person according to God’s plan. To keep a good relationship with God we need to
have faith in Him and making Him the Lord of our life. In the world today,
people are neglecting their relationship with God and focus more to the worldly
materials. A good Lordship should start from young age; yet, there are many
distractions from the modern innovations. Small religious group or church
community such as Rebirth could help the youngsters to develop their
relationship with God which will be important for their future. I should
encourage more of my friends to join the Rebirth group or other small groups
that can help them to advance their Lordship. Someone with a good Lordship will
surely live a good life according to God’s Will; furthermore, we can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me.