In the Seventh-day Adventist Church, each three months there is a new subject for Bible Study. The same theme is studied in all churches world-wide. For the past three months (July, August, September 2005) the theme has been the title of this editorial.
The first week leading up to the first Sabbath we studied the theme of "Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ", looking at our need of a Saviour, Heaven's provision and our necessary response. For the final week we studied the certainty of Christ's return to eliminate sin and suffering for ever when He comes as "King of Kings and Lord of Lords".
For the eleven remaining weeks our study became very practical and personal as we looked at Jesus as Lord of various aspects of our lives. The titles, in order, were
Lord of our Priorities
Lord of our Thoughts
Lord of our Desires
Lord of our Speech
Lord of our Prayers
Lord of our Relationships
Lord of our Resources
Lord of our Body Temples
Lord of our Labour
Lord of our Worship
Lord of our Service.
I found these studies very helpful in my personal life. Since Jesus has done so much for us, and we are so weak in our attempts to conquer sins in our lives, our only possible response is to let him take control in our lives. Only as Christ lives within us and takes control can we possibly live as He would like us to. The Lord's Prayer has the phrase "Thy will be done on earth". Only as His will is done in the individual lives of Christians can this be fulfilled.
Thus Jesus must become Lord of all aspects of our aims, thoughts, words, actions, relationships and everything in both secular and spirit aspects of our daily lives.
