DEAD OR ALIVE?

Matthew 22:32

God isn't the God of the dead, but of the living.

Some struggle with “what was”.  Others struggle with “what’s to come”.  Their focus is constantly on what they have done or would have done. In these cases that person is just living, and never really gets to be alive.  Christ came to put the past to bed. He came to handle the affairs of your future. Worry never fixes what GOD has already planned.  The past is done. Those who have betrayed you and those you have betrayed are a part of the story leading to salvation.  In other words, they are just a piece of the story that makes up your testimony. They are you life’s lesson.  To think of them in any other way or to dwell on them in hopes to see how you would have changed anything is counterproductive. That old relationship or any expired experience is gone.  Commit to being alive. Commit to Christ and leave everything at his feet. Connect your heart to his and listen for the direction and assignment he places in your heart.

Do you really understand what it is to be alive? If you did there wouldn’t be a person who has had contact with you who wouldn’t know also!  Don’t just live, become alive. Become reborn, renewed, breathing, walking and living in Christ.  Some people are just moving through life. I compare it to the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s”.  Two guys are walking this dead man’s body around trying to keep up appearances.  Likewise, your body may move, and you may be moving around, but are you alive? Have you really learned what it is to breathe, and live spiritually? Do not be fooled or distracted by Satan. Do not accept the lie that you are living, and God is dead. Do not accept anything less than perfection and life in Christ. Become alive, . . Alive in Christ.

Be encouraged

 

I love always, and in all ways.

Rev M. Harrison