When We Choose to Be A Christian.

When we choose to be Christians we are choosing to serve a living, loving, eternal life giving- God. When we choose to serve God we are placing Him before ourselves. We are placing His desires, His needs before our own. We are recognizing that our God is our creator and as our creator we owe Him our very life. We are acknowledging that our Creator truly has our best interests in mind. As Christians we believe that we are in need of salvation, that we cannot find salvation on our own. We are saying that there is something terribly wrong with this world and because something is wrong, it needs to be made right. We are admitting that we are very flawed in many ways when we say we are Christians. We are proclaiming that humanity is under a curse and the only way to break that curse is through our Savior. We believe that our Creator allows the curse to manifest itself fully in His creations and does so because He does not want to be a dictator, a puppet master. When He created us with freedom to choose the risk of choosing to live under the curse was one of the possibilities of choice. Instead of blotting us out of existence as an entire race, as a failed experiment, another opportunity to choose was enacted. Only this time, we would live under the curse - suffering all the horrors of the curse, of living a life without our Creator, if that's what we choose. We would live in a world filled with cursed individuals who would daily choose to exalt the curse rather than choose God. Every single horror in this world is a result of the curse. Those who choose God and are suffering under the influence of a cursed world comprehend that the cursed world is only temporary and will pass. As Christians we will make the daily choice to follow God, we will make many thousands, hundreds of thousands, seemingly countless decisions during our life and each one is the choice between following God or the cursed life. We are cursed, we are flawed and when we recognize a choice we've made is contrary to God's will, we are allowed to seek forgiveness for that choice.  When we make ourselves our god- serving ourselves first, we sin. When we focus on ourselves we set ourselves in place of God.  To be dead to sinning is to be dead to self in all ways.  The curse would have us believe that everything is about us and how we are feeling at any given moment in time. God would have us believe that everything is about Him, and all those around us at any given moment in time.

If we choose to serve God and others and NOT self- sin can't reign in us, sin can't have the control it desires to have.

Please, Lord, we would choose YOU! All by YOUR grace and mercy, through YOU - we choose YOU.

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Rom 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 

'(4) Stand on Romans 6.11. God’s children need to watch lest in seeking to experience the separation of soul and spirit they fall back into sin. Remember that this separating is built upon their having died to sin. Hence they should maintain daily the attitude of Romans 6.11, considering themselves verily dead to sin. Additionally, they should stand on Romans 6.12 and not permit sin to reign in their mortal bodies. This attitude will deprive their natural life any opportunity to sin through the body.' The Spiritual Man - Watchman Nee