Philippians 2:14-15
14 Do everything without complaining
and arguing, 15 so
that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God,
shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.
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Look around and tell me what you see. This world is not the place God created it to
be. It is flawed and full of flawed
people (myself included). All around us
we see the manifestation and shrapnel left behind from the bombshell sin
dropped on all of creation. As God picks
up the pieces we can see a glimpse of the perfection He intended for us to
experience.
Our flesh wars
against the new spirit God has placed into us.
We have to fight each moment to align ourselves with the nature of
Christ. We have to beat our flesh back
daily. Why? Because this fallen world is
looking for a lighted path back to the place of God’s design. Even though the world is crooked and perverse
it still longs to be made whole. It
hates those who have that new spirit but secretly longs to be right and have
the peace and freedom that comes along with it.
The world and those in it attack those who are saved in order to justify
and edify its own cracked fallen nature.
If people who are in Christ constantly complain, hate, and
live double lives, the world will never have a that light that
will lead them back to God. A person who
confesses Christ in words but expresses sin in their actions lives a life of
chaos that is on display for the whole world to see. They become the face of hypocrisy that the Satan
paints as real Christianity.
Let us stop looking around and begin to look within! When we look in the mirror we see only a
shadow of whom and what God created us to be, inside and out. We must realize that we are not fooling
anyone but ourselves. We need to
surgically remove the will and practice of hidden sin. We need to fight it each day and run if
needed. Each moment of resistance will
give way to greater power, strength, and focus on God. If you never fight your flesh, when push
comes to shove, you will ultimately serve it instead of Christ. Work daily to maintain a degree of separation
from who you were and who God wants you to be.
In order to make a difference you must be different and brand new in Christ!
Remember I love you always an in all ways.
Rev. M. Harrison
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