Saturday, July 4, 2015

This world will NOT get any easier for Christ followers

Could we live without any laws?  Could even two people live together without having agreed upon ways of behavior?  No.  Every society has it's laws whether they are called laws or not, they exist. There are standards, there are rules, there are the ways of things that must be adhered to in every single relationship.  Put just two people together to live with each other for a year and see how long it takes for them to have agreed upon behaviors assigned. 

To live means to have to engage in activities of living.  You don't live unless you engage in the activities of living in one way or another. There are many people kept alive today by people using artificial means to enact those activities of living that they cannot do for themselves.

The necessary activities of living- eating, drinking, sleeping, elimination.

We eat, drink, sleep, eliminate waste from our body or we die.

When we get together with others to live we all have our own ways of doing these things.  How awful it would be if there were two people living together where one insisted upon being awake and active to the point of keeping the other  from sleeping when they desired to sleep.  What if one ate all the food for the day without allowing the other any? What if one used up all the water for the day? What if one decided they could eliminate their waste anywhere they desired?  Would this result in a happy living environment? Absolutely not. I'm talking about a situation where people are unable to NOT live together.

As soon as people start living with each other their behaviors have to be amended to an agreed upon way of life.   When this happens rules are formed, spoken or unspoken.

Throughout our world every society has formed their own rules.  Where a society form rules that are in opposition to another's often there is a push to get the societies to form basic rules of humanity. We have the united nations in our world that is supposed to be a worldwide rule maker deeming what is and what isn't an acceptable society.  We go to war to correct societies that live in opposition to those universal rules. We want everyone alive to have the right to a peaceful way of living. We desire worldwide peace, there is a fight for this elusive thing.

We live in such great opposition to one another on grand scales- country wide scales and individual- much smaller scales.  There will NEVER be worldwide peace as long as we are flawed human beings prone to non-peaceful acts. And as soon as someone tries to FORCE peace they are committing an action contrary to peace.

People who believe that the world will one day straighten itself out are deluding themselves. The natures of flesh we are born with prevents world wide peace.

It is OVERCOMING those natural flesh tendencies through JESUS CHRIST that is necessary.

We can't overcome them on our own, but with Christ we can. We must put ourselves in HIS hands daily, hourly, minutely, unendingly.  We must recognize our eternal, infinite need of HIM to be our righteousness. 

We are NOT called to take our evil flesh natures and call them good.

I am NOT called to take my selfishness and justify it so I can continue being selfish. I am not called to excuse away my selfishness or any other sinful way in myself, but I am called to confess it and forsake it on a daily, hourly, infinite basis.  When I succumb to my flesh nature I must CONFESS and once again forsake. And if this seems like an endless cycle of sin, confess, forsake, sin, confess, forsake that's because it has to be until my Savior seals me as His. Forever we are dependent upon our Savior. Forever we must live fighting the WAR against sinning without calling sin good and therefore giving up the war.  There is NO easy way out of this, not one single easy way out.  It's a FIGHT, your life is a FIGHT.

If people get together and decide they no longer want to fight against certain sins, that is their right, I can't stop them. If whole societies get together and make a universal sin no longer sin, I can't stop them.  Just because they've done that doesn't mean that sin no longer exists. It just means the majority of the world has accepted the sin as being good and they no longer will fight against it. They will label themselves enlightened and pat themselves on the back.  We were warned this would happen. Sin would be call good and good things sin.

No, I can't stop writing about this yet, it's heavy on my heart.  People want me to call evil good, and if I don't, I'm the evil one.  This is what it has come to and I cannot call evil good.

EVERY single one of us fights our personal propensity towards various sinning, some of us have a multitude of flesh weaknesses. We can sin in our minds without ever sinning outwardly and it is STILL sin! We all have our battles to wage, there isn't a single person alive who does not.  My battle might be easy to you, and yours easy to me.  But we ALL have the battles to war with over that which would keep us from accepting Christ as our Redeemer. 

Your battle might be in the newspaper headlines, mine  hidden where no one can see.  Mine might be in the headlines, while yours remains unseen. 

Satan wants us all equally and will fight for us in our personal ways. He has a personal battle plan for every individual.  Some people are easily won, others will never be won and I PRAY to GOD I am NEVER won by SATAN so that he determines my eternal death.  I pray I cling to Christ MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, never putting any hope or trust in my own filthy rag righteousness.

Isa_64:6  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags

I have been wrong about many things in my life, many, many things. I must confess I have called various sins good and even tried to get others to do so and I can only beg for forgiveness.  Please….my Savior forgive me!

Christ followers everywhere, be prepared to continue to live in a world where more and more evil will be called good and you will be called hateful because you refuse to call evil good. 

This world will NOT get easier for Christ followers.

May we only ever follow Christ's TRUTHS and love HIM first and foremost, loving God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit- these three Gods must be loved first and then through their love we can LOVE ALL OTHERS, all while hating sin.

All in the name of Jesus Christ my Lord, my Savior! My Redeemer! My Hope!

Amen.





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