Survival

On reflection I have realised how my drive has pushed me in certain directions to achieve different objectives through the differing stages of my life. However as life has ticked by those goalpost have shifted. When one thought died or had been ticked off my bucket list a new awareness would spring to life depending on my situation and state of mind. I surmise that we can all be tarred with the same brush as we are all made from the same matter and driven by the will to survive at the core of our being. No-one purposefully goes out of their way looking for death and yet we will all face death in one form or another, bar a few in the days of the rapture.

I often catch myself saying “I love you Lord” but of late I am questioning the severity of that statement, it is obvious that I love the Lord, or is it? I have realised that I need to prove that statement by my actions. Here is the ultimate tester; “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21) - True love is full of evidence...

   

Society and all those taken by her teachers us a certain way, it cries education and stashing money for old age. I must confess it is rather an appealing lure. It is the safe bet, the trap the majority are taken by. A rather large distraction that keeps us busy and away from what really counts, fearing God and keeping His commandments. Why should we realign our mental rudders? The truth off it all is that God will judge the world and all its citizens, so instead of being so caught up with our own selfish wants, whatever that may be. We need to understand and accept King Solomon’s truth and wisdom, if not we will bear the brunt of our own actions, period! Mistakes are normally habit forming and the longer they are left to run riot the more a formidable opponent they become. Sin needs to be dealt with at its core, and for this reason Christ Jesus died on behalf of the sinner, the work it complete and nothing can be added to it. You are either covered by His blood or not and there is no in-between. But what I will add, is something that I struggled with for many years, in fact for most of them and it is this; we (the Christian) have all been called to put off the old and put on the new, the areas of our lives where we have struggles must be braved head on. We must not continue to lie to ourselves about those regions that keep us from walking in the light. We are so naturally drawn to reflex reactions that we believe so many of them to be acceptable and yet so few of them are suitable to our great God. We have been called to mimic our Saviours reflection. This is the call for the Christian and that type of mind-set must never be stripped from our reckoning. If and when we err in this area of our lives, do not be fooled, we are lying to ourselves and correction or chastisement may be just around the corner.

Examine your lives and then ask yourselves, can I with a clear conscience bring every area of my life into the open for all to see. If not those then are the areas that need to be confronted and we need to seek out God’s grace to overcome? However we must not make the mistake of shelving those areas of our lives. We can never grow up into our blessed Saviours image if those rough corners of our lives are not ironed out, or rather eradicated and plundered to death. Righteous anger is a requirement that is vital for the Christian to have in their armoury.        

God wants us to realise that we have need of Him far more than we are willing to admit or allow, life’s journey must bring us to places that reminds us that it’s in our weakness that God strengthens our sense of what He is doing in our lives. Firstly our dependency on Him must be evident in our own minds and then become evident to those around us. Whilst our enemies do their utmost to slow down the process. But if God is for me who can be against me? If He is in my corner I may lose some fights, so that I may learn some very valuable lessons along the way, but never the ultimate battle, praise His glorious name.

All hail king Jesus! He is the Lord of Lords and the Lord of my life! Thank you Father God for raising Him from the dead, which in turn has brought about new life for so many and to be numbered with the believers, those who have the ability to cry Abba Father, I am truly privileged and words will never copiously illustrate my gratitude. But it is words that God has chosen to equip individuals with, so that through confession a soul may be saved. Do you believe that God raised the man Jesus from the dead? If so, then cry out that you believe that Jesus is Lord, that he is the only way to God and that there is no other way whereby a person may and must be saved.

There is no confusion with the Gospel message, it is rather a simple choice, but choose you must.

Signing off

Tyrone