Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Self or God?


Being a glutton, a drunkard- people who eat and drink to indulge self over glorifying God are NOT God's.

Throughout the Bible we read of gluttons and drunkards and NEVER in a good way. Choosing drink and food over God is wrong. ANYTHING and it doesn't matter what it is- that takes the place of God in our lives is wrong. ANYTHING that isn't to God's glory is wrong.  We skate around this issue so much. We dance in and out and all around about how we are glorifying God.  We are so selfishly bent in our lives we don't know how to glorify God in all we do. We simply do not know, so instead we glorify ourselves and pretend it's alright with God.

Php 2:21  For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

Rom 16:18  For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 

2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 
2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Rom 14:17  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 

We are self-servers, self-lovers, and self-deceivers is there any wonder our Savior won't know us. We are pretenders, and we have to STOP pretending and start obeying the Word of our LORD.

Please, LORD, please we are so wretched! Please do ALL for us we cannot do and PLEASE teach us to do what we have to do ourselves through Your strength! We know how awful we are, we know how to indulge ourselves but not how NOT to indulge ourselves. Please… help us, save us from ourselves.

All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR, NOW and FOREVER!


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