Well, if anything in us has to be a
‘God thing’…this is it.
The bottom line of this is our becoming
more like Christ. As we are doing that, our lives reflect him and his
love, and our worship and service to him flows out of his presence in
us. We cannot die to self and serve others in our own power. It goes
against our very nature. First, we have to be totally sold out to
the Lord and be willing to let him change us – every day – into a
truer likeness of him.
Romans 12:1-2 “Therefore, I urge you,
brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer you bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act
of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be
willing to test and approve what God’s will is – his good,
pleasing, and perfect will.”
Read Romans 14. It talks about the weak
and the strong in the faith. We have a responsibility to one another
that will sometimes require us to set aside our own rights to protect
someone of weaker faith. “For none of us lives to himself alone…we
live to the Lord…”
No personal freedom is worth breaking
fellowship with God, and none is worth causing a brother or sister to
stumble, or a lost person to turn away from God.
Luke 17:1-3 “Jesus said to his
disciples, ‘Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but
woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him
to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than
for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. So watch
yourselves.’”
We are free in Christ, but we are not
allowed to exercise that freedom to the point of confusing others and
leading them away from the Lord.
In your prayer time today, ask God to
show you any area of your life that needs to be “crucified with
Christ”. Ask him to show you anything that might be causing
someone to be confused about who God is. It may be something very
obvious; it may be something so subtle that you would not even give a
thought to it, but we all have areas that need to be surrendered to
the Lord. Thank God for the freedom you have in Christ. Ask him to
help you share the good news of that freedom – from all kinds of
bondage – with someone who needs to hear it.
I am praying for you today.
Sherri
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