PURITY AND FORGIVENESS

GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF JESUS:


 Setting ourselves aside for the worship and relationship we can have with God is Lordship of Jesus Christ the by far the most important thing we will ever do in this life.  Every time we allow this world to come between God and us we also have trouble with one another, even those among us who are of Christ.

 1 Corinthians 6: 7-8 the signs of lawsuits and problems among God's people today are an indication that for many of us we have been defeated by this world already.   Paul tells us in Romans 2:1-12 speaks to this passing of judgment causing all kinds of trouble for people. Romans 3:23 reminds us that all of us have sinned in some way. Romans 6:23  tells us again that the wages of sins are always death. Romans 5:8 again tells us that Christ is the one who died for our sins, and
Romans 10:8-10 that if we seek forgiveness of sin we must go through the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  We have to know this; that at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the unGodly Romans 5:6   Christ has not called on us to die for the ungodly of this world, but rather to be living examples to them of what a life in the Kingdom of Heaven can mean for them; even while they are still alive on earth.  In order to do that we have to put away from us all that this world represents to itself, and love without measure just as God has first loved us.  It is by no means an easy choice nor an easy life we live with all the world set against us because the world hates the goodness of Christ.  He is the one who has defeated sin and death.

 What if anything does this all mean when it comes to our ability to gain ground on becoming Holy and acceptable to God which is our reasonable service?  This all means that we have been given a new life in Christ, not because of what we have done, but because of what He has done for us.  This new life is explained in great detail throughout  Romans 6:2-16, but it cannot be lived in the physical, it can only be lived through our Spiritual connection with Jesus.  That means that our contact with and through God to this world must change and increase to the point that we become transformed into new creatures through our prayer and meditational efforts in Jesus.  We must work at changing our sinful nature; it is not God's job to change us or even to give us the will to change us.

  It becomes an act of our own will that we give over to the Spirit of God that helps us to do battle with this sinful nature but do not think that God will just automatically do everything for you because it takes our will to change with God's help.  There are many Christians setting back just waiting for God to do a work in them who will never see any change made in their life.  I want to urge through through the mercies of Christ to seek after God with your whole heart and mind.  If you do you will find Him as it is promised.  For those who have long thought that God has done it all for you til now remember that He has told us of the sacrifice and the things, we must do to find God.  It is through our action is taken to validate His gift to us. Love is always free to receive, but it is never free to give to another person...it always is costly.  May you richly bless God through your life in Him.



THE UNWORTHY SERVANT