Monday | 05 October 2026

Presenting ourselves for discipleship

How do we walk as pilgrims on the more excellent way? We present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice each day so that we can prove what is the ‘good and acceptable [well pleasing] and perfect will of God’. Rom 12:2. It is only as we continue to present ourselves for fellowship, which is our offering to God, that we can continue to walk on the pathway from the good to the better to the best. This is the only way that it can be achieved! At each point on the journey, we need to keep choosing the better, or more excellent way, so that we continue walking in the light of the word of present truth towards the best. The best is the perfect will of God.

The book of Proverbs describes the pilgrimage of the more excellent way by describing how we receive knowledge, learn wisdom, and then find understanding. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Pro 1:7. The book of Proverbs describes the fool who despises the Lord’s word, but presumes to seek the Lord when they are in a crisis. The Lord says, ‘Then they will call on Me, but I will not answer; they will seek Me diligently, but they will not find Me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD.’ Pro 1:28‑29.

Knowledge is the outcome of choosing the fear of the Lord. We demonstrate that we have received knowledge when we cease trying to be the source of our own name and works. We recognise the sovereignty of God in relation to our identity and sonship. When we possess this knowledge, we will present ourselves for discipleship by the presbytery so that we receive instruction in relation to our sanctification. The instruction that we receive regarding our sanctification is wisdom from above. It is the ‘instruction of wisdom’. Pro 1:3.