Galatians 2:20 says that it’s no longer that I live, but its Christ that lives in me. It took Paul 20 years to finally get that revelation. The mystery of Christ is much more than a ticket to heaven, or that our sins are forgiven. We get a new nature about us, and we are different. It not only makes us alive in Him, but it makes us want to do good things. We need to practice the good things that God wants us to do, and we will grow.
We spend too much time complaining that we haven’t conquered the problem when we forgot to look at how much we have grown. We need to learn to be content, and learn to walk in love every day. We must enjoy each day and continue to transform.
I’m not where I need to be, but I thank God that I am nowhere near the person that I used to be.
We don’t need to get out of bed, and give God a long list of what is going to make us happy that day. It’s time to wake up saying that I want to be a body that God can use to make Him happy and greater His kingdom. It’s time to allow God to touch people through us. It’s time to smile at people and let God give to people through us.
This next revelation that God revealed to me really shook my world.
I was always praying for God to help somebody, but God showed me that I could help them. God wanted me to stop asking Him to help people when I could have just as easily helped them. I just didn’t want to. How many times do we ask God to help somebody because we don’t want to make the sacrifice? If God shows us the need, it’s because he wants us to see the joy in whatever it may be.
Keep doing what is right, so it will become a habit. You are going to have to do what’s right for a while before you get a right result. When you sow a seed, it takes a little bit of time before you get the harvest. The seed doesn’t automatically appear, and when it does appear, it is a tiny plant with room to grow.
According to Romans 6:1-6, We shouldn’t remain in sin in order to for God’s grace, favor, and mercy to multiply and overflow. We have died to sin and can’t live in it any longer. Our flesh may want to sin, but our hearts don’t want us to sin because we are born again. You can sin and be comfortable with it before you are born again, but once you have received the Holy Spirit, sin becomes difficult. You understand that it isn’t right, unless you become bitter and develop a hard heart. If that is the case, then that is the most dangerous place to be. It’s time to be set free. We were buried; therefore, with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, we too might habitually live and have in newness of life. I am dead to sin, and alive to God. If we become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be one with Him in sharing His resurrection by a new life lived for God. We know that our old un-renewed self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that our body, which is the instrument of sin, and might be ineffective and inactive for evil. We might no longer be the slaves of sin.
Our body can also be the instrument of righteousness. If we don’t understand ourselves, then how can we understand what great plan that God has for us in this life. We really can do all things in Christ who strengthens us. Greater is He that is in me than greater than he that is in the world. God has given us His heart and spirit. He also took our sins, and gave us His righteousness. We are right with God through the blood of Christ. In our spirit, we are full of righteousness. God wouldn’t tell us to do what is right if he didn’t give us the equipment to do what is right. We have what it takes to do what is right, but the devil doesn’t want us to know that.
I am a new creature in Christ. I am going to do what’s right even though I am not where I am supposed to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. I am learning and growing.
Romans 6:10- 11- For by the death He died, He died to sin ending His relation to it once and for all; and He is living to God in unbroken fellowship with Him. Consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God living in unbroken fellowship with Him in Christ Jesus.
Consider is a process of thinking. You have to think about your actions. If you’re the only Christian in any situation, you better think long and hard on moving away from non Christians. That is where you are needed. Don’t say that you over eat because you can not, not over eat. You are born again, and you don’t have to be bossed around by silly stuff. All we need to know who we are in Christ. You got to learn to know who you are at home and not at church. Consider yourself alive in Christ and dead to sin.
Romans 6:12-13 say that we should not let sin rule as king in your mortal short-lived, perishable bodies. We shouldn’t continue offering or yielding our body as a facility to sin and an instrument of wickedness. We shall offer and yield ourselves to God because Christ has been raised from the dead, so we could have a new life. We shall live a life that is righteous to God. We have to continually surrender ourselves to God, and become His slave. The flesh wants us to sin, but the spirit wants us to be righteous. We must understand the difference between body, soul, and spirit. The devil works through the flesh, but God works in the spirit.
I have to work on this daily. I am not saying that I am perfect by any means. Sin is getting easier to conquer because I know who I am in Christ Jesus. I am able to understand the difference between Satan and God. I still battle with sin, but my desire to sin is gone. I am thankful that Jesus died for my sins. I am thankful that God is a merciful God, and forgives me when I do slip up. I thank God that I am nowhere near where I should be, but thank God that I am not what I used to be.
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