What Is Jesus Leading You To? A Morning Devotional to move into the New Thing God is Doing in Your Life.

What is Jesus Leading You To
Pastor Calvin Cook
April 16, 2025

Key Verse: “Your transgressions I will blot out.” (Isaiah 43:25)

This morning, I am asking the question “What is Jesus Leading Me To?” I hope it is a question that you will seriously ask yourself, not just for a moment or a season, but through the rest of your days in this life.

One of the things that I have been thoroughly convinced of through this Lenten season while we have been looking deeply at Isaiah 43 is that in no way does God want us to stay stuck in the sins and conditions of the world, in our sin, past guilts, circumstances that have taken over a holy relationship, or so many things. We are being called to a new glorious life where are focus is on the one true and only God. Easy words to say, harder to live out.

I have to think of this week of Holy Week where we consider the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the turning over of tables in the temple, the betrayal by one of Jesus’s close followers, the meal in the Upper Room, the arrest, the trial, and the crucifixion and all the events of that day. Why? So that we might know a better way, have a better relationship with God and each other, and move to the place that because of Jesus’s great acts of mercy we might be in the place, mentally, physically, and especially soulfully that has always been and will always be intended for each of us.

Yet it is evidenced in the accounts of this week that Jesus had to continually ask his Disciples and is asking us to today to follow, to keep awake, to pray, to be faithful, to trust, to believe, but most importantly to know that what Jesus is leading us to is a better more devoted relationship to the one who is, was, and will continue to be the one true, everlasting, and righteous God.

God’s work of redemption is a testimony to His greatness. When we live as forgiven people, we glorify Him and become witnesses to His grace. Jesus’ life and death call us to reflect His mercy in how we live.

As you ask and pray with all your heart “What are you leading me to?” May you center yourself on what the Holy Spirit is guiding you through. Not just for you so you feel good, so that God, (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is being glorified.