Shine
Welcome to another edition of Just Saying!
“God’s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation’s available for everyone! We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.”
Titus 2:11-14 MSG
He OFFERED himself as a sacrifice to FREE US from the dark…. Why then do we so easily return to the dark… My heart is so saddened at the compromise and justification that is being taught and believed by the sons and daughters of God... When we make decisions in our life: marriage, jobs, relationships, conversations, where our eyes go, where our feet roam, what our ears take in, what our mouth speaks, what we open our hearts up to…. EVERYTHING should be filtered through a heart of love and adoration for a King that willingly sacrificed his life for us to be free… Love because he first loved us… A relationship with the bondage breaker and freedom giver should not be boiled down to what we feel or what we can justify or what no one will ever find out about… it should always stem from a heart that Longs to honor the Father and honor our Fathers name… Here is the challenge…. Where are you? What is guiding your life… the decisions you make daily.. The word, the heart and Spirit of God or your own desires… These are questions we should all be asking ourselves …. an important thing to remember … In our moments of compromise we could possibly lose the power to overcome in our moments of destiny… It’s so important for us to be open and real about the temptations in our lives that desire to steal kill and destroy our hearts…yes we should be open about our struggles but we should never allow our struggles to define us or rule us….we should never just lay down and let our struggles lay hold of our lives…we should do away with compromise and justifications and remind our flesh that we have been purchased for FREEDOM…we will not allow the ways of this world to shape our lives… remember Beloved we belong to the Kingdom of Heaven and we have the amazing opportunity to bring honor to the King of Glory with our lives….after all He thought we were worth dying for..so in the words of Kung Fu Panda…yes I said Kung Fu Panda…the sound of heaven can be found everywhere Beloved..do you have ears to hear the sound… in the words of Kung Fu Panda..
If you only do what you can do you will never be more than you are…
Believe that the sacrifice made for your freedom was worth it…today do something different…draw the line in the sand…say never again…and Beloved..believe that there is a greater version of yourself waiting to SHINE in the darkness.