Saturday, June 28, 2014

Live for Him




When all has ended in this life and the final curtain has fallen there will be one lasting reality:  the one and only Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and what did you do when he called you to walk with him.  We've been given all we need to answer the question of life.  There are many questions about reality.  However there is only one answer:  Jesus Christ.  He is the way, the truth and the life.  All will pass away.  Now abideth faith, hope, and the Love of God, but the greatest of these is love.

Romans 8:35, 37 Who shall separate us from the love of God?  Shall persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword?  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

How do you know if you got it right? 
I beseech ye therefore brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service.  And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)

Two questions for immature guys:  What's in it for me?  How much does it cost?

It's not about the cost, it's about value.  What do you value most?  Are you blind to the spiritual reality?  There is a far greater value, a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory in the things of the spirit than the things of this world.  Jesus Christ came to open the eyes of those who were born spiritually blind.  When you can't see God's plan or God's heart, you can't trust him.  Trusting in him results from abiding in him.  When you know the master's heart, you don't question the master's will.  My prayer is to align my heart with his heart, my will with his will, my walk with his walk.  Jesus didn't say follow me on a journey of a thousand miles.  He only said to "follow me."  He said to walk with me.  The walk is one step at a time.  Jesus asks us to live in the moment with him.  He didn't say to walk with him tomorrow.  "Take no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take care of the things of itself."  All we have is now.  One moment in time...  each moment I have an appointment with destiny... to walk with him one step at a time...  we are his workmanship (Greek word “poema”), we are God's masterpiece, his poetry in motion;  created in Christ Jesus unto good works which he hath foreordained (his appointment) that we should walk in it. (Ephesians 2:10)  Each step, each moment we have the decision to keep our appointment with our Father and with his son.  Disappointment is the missing of God's divine appointment.  Trust in The Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thy own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Living sacrifice:  sacrifice my carnal will of sin and death for his spiritual will of life and peace.  God didn't ask us to die for Him, He commands us to live for Him.  Like General Patton said, "there's no honor in dying for your country, there's honor in making your enemy die for his."  As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.  Jesus led captivity captive.  He said I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh to the father except by me. (John 14:6)  As we abide in him, only then can we know the truth...  he is the Word of truth and the truth shall set you free.  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free.  Only use not liberty as an occasion to sin, but in love serve one another. 


The Word of God is the polar opposite of the world's wisdom.  Worldly wisdom says "what's in it for me."  Spiritual wisdom says "what's in it for him."    Ye are slaves to that which you obey... either the carnal nature or the spiritual nature of God in Christ in you.
There is only freedom in bondage to Christ.  The ultimate freedom is the ultimate bondage...  Make me a captive Lord and then I shall be free...  force me to render up my sword and I shall conqueror be.  The greatest act of worship is presenting our bodies a living sacrifice...  not my will but thine be done.


Your Brother in Christ, Michael

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