DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE A GOOD PERSON?
I send greetings to you in the name of Jesus:
Most of us, when we are asked if we consider ourselves to be a good person would say yes! We want to be considered to be a good person on our own accord without the prompting of someone else's aid to do so. The problem for most of us is that we cannot find a way around the sin that we have committed in our lives. We can't seem to find our own way to deserve forgiveness of those things that we've done. In fact if we look at the 10 Commandments as they were given to us from God through Moses we will probably find several of these commandments that we have broken throughout her lifetime. The laws in the Commandments of God are by themselves only used to show us our personal guilt. The law itself does not give us a way to find forgiveness, or a way to that we can change our status under God's law.
When we start to experience the full weight of God's law on spiritually there is really only one direction we can turn to; and then direction is the one that God has pointed out to us through Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins. We cannot find a way to think around these laws or to explain them away when we have broken them. The only thing that we can really do is to accept what God has given us as a free gift through Jesus Christ. God has spoken to us through Scripture telling us that the old covenant that he has made with the Israelites was to be fulfilled through the birth and the life of the Messiah. The problem is in our acceptance of the Messiah and of the fulfilling of the prophecies by Jesus Christ that have not been fulfilled by any other man. It is far past time for us as Christians to realize the need to be experience our faith in Christ. Our faith isn't intellectual, it is experiential. We don't know about God, at least not in the ways we should. We have a knowledge about God, but we do not know God; we have not experienced God in a personal way.
Just this morning in our family devotions Matthew 24: came up where Jesus was telling the disciples that even by doing something for the least in the Kingdom it is as they had done it unto Him. It made me realize once again how little we really allow ourselves to experience our relationship with Christ on a daily basis. It isn't really we who do anything at all, but the power of God's Spirit that works through us to share the light of truth with this world. This is all a part of the New Covenant that God has made through the life, death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Who we are right now is being shaped by the ways that we are willing to allow His Spirit to continue to work through us and in us. The best ways we can consider ourselves to be in Christ is as a tool that is used at His own will and pleasure. I cannot consider myself either good or bad because depending on the spirit that I allow myself to follow I am vulnerable to be used either way. I believe that is the part of obedience that we often miss. Jesus told us that " as long as you do what I have commanded you to do you aare my friends". The question is how are we looking our relationship with Christ? Are we trying to use Him to do our will in life, or are we becoming the tool without attaching our will to the work we are being used for at this time in our lives? That is something we all need to consider. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SEERVANT
Most of us, when we are asked if we consider ourselves to be a good person would say yes! We want to be considered to be a good person on our own accord without the prompting of someone else's aid to do so. The problem for most of us is that we cannot find a way around the sin that we have committed in our lives. We can't seem to find our own way to deserve forgiveness of those things that we've done. In fact if we look at the 10 Commandments as they were given to us from God through Moses we will probably find several of these commandments that we have broken throughout her lifetime. The laws in the Commandments of God are by themselves only used to show us our personal guilt. The law itself does not give us a way to find forgiveness, or a way to that we can change our status under God's law.
When we start to experience the full weight of God's law on spiritually there is really only one direction we can turn to; and then direction is the one that God has pointed out to us through Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins. We cannot find a way to think around these laws or to explain them away when we have broken them. The only thing that we can really do is to accept what God has given us as a free gift through Jesus Christ. God has spoken to us through Scripture telling us that the old covenant that he has made with the Israelites was to be fulfilled through the birth and the life of the Messiah. The problem is in our acceptance of the Messiah and of the fulfilling of the prophecies by Jesus Christ that have not been fulfilled by any other man. It is far past time for us as Christians to realize the need to be experience our faith in Christ. Our faith isn't intellectual, it is experiential. We don't know about God, at least not in the ways we should. We have a knowledge about God, but we do not know God; we have not experienced God in a personal way.
Just this morning in our family devotions Matthew 24: came up where Jesus was telling the disciples that even by doing something for the least in the Kingdom it is as they had done it unto Him. It made me realize once again how little we really allow ourselves to experience our relationship with Christ on a daily basis. It isn't really we who do anything at all, but the power of God's Spirit that works through us to share the light of truth with this world. This is all a part of the New Covenant that God has made through the life, death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Who we are right now is being shaped by the ways that we are willing to allow His Spirit to continue to work through us and in us. The best ways we can consider ourselves to be in Christ is as a tool that is used at His own will and pleasure. I cannot consider myself either good or bad because depending on the spirit that I allow myself to follow I am vulnerable to be used either way. I believe that is the part of obedience that we often miss. Jesus told us that " as long as you do what I have commanded you to do you aare my friends". The question is how are we looking our relationship with Christ? Are we trying to use Him to do our will in life, or are we becoming the tool without attaching our will to the work we are being used for at this time in our lives? That is something we all need to consider. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SEERVANT
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