If God decided to commission a new version of the Bible set in our time; what would be your role; based on how you are living your life right now?
Would you the the legalistic pharisee who embraces the laws and concepts to the point of making others miserable. Or maybe the person who believes the concepts, goes to church each weekend...but has yet to embrace God and make Him the reality in your world. Or maybe, you would be like the disciples, knowing there is a significance, a weight to the Lord...learning and growing daily...not perfect but wanting so much to be like Him, wanting to live your life for His glory and not yours.
Based on how you are living your life today...where would you be?
Is God still a concept to you? Or has God become your reality? Do you live your life as if you are living it for the glory of God? To live your life for the glory of God is to live a life where you place the weight of God into each decision, into each action you take.
Galatians 1:10 - Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
If you are trying to win the approval of men, you are living a worldly life...not a Godly life. If you are trying to win the approval of men...you are not a servant of Christ. Is it for your glory or His? I've got to be honest, each and every thing I write...I want it to have an impact on those that I write it for. So I struggle with the question "Is it for my glory or God's?" constantly. When I've stopped asking, I've probably lost the battle.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.
That is a big list, and I'm guessing that if we are honest, nearly all of us fall into that list somewhere. But I want to focus on what is said after the list. Paul is writing to the the churches he founded in Galatia...he is writing to a church and he uses the words "And that is what some of you were." - What some of you were...meaning that some are still there? That some in the church are still those things? YES...some of you are still there.
Is the reason...that you still only know the concept of God, and not the reality?
But you were washed, you were sanctified, justified....not by anything you did...but by and in the name of Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God. Let Jesus become your reality and be washed, sanctified and justified by Him. It's time you let your life be transformed by the love, mercy and grace that is Jesus Christ our Savior.
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