“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he
is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become
new.” —2 Corinthians 5:17
I am an observer of people, perhaps like you
are. I watch how people interact with
each other. How people respond to
life. How people communicate with each
other. What people say and what they
don’t say. As a consequence of my observing
– not judging, just trying to understand, I have noticed how easily we, as
Christians compartmentalize our lives. There
are certain aspects of our lives we consider as strictly spiritual and other
aspects, we consider to be natural … having nothing to do with that part of us
that is Christian. So very often we
respond to the natural events in life with the natural in us. But, if you are a Christian .. everything in
the natural has a spiritual context.
It is very easy to live like we are
lost. Like putting on an old pair of
shoes – slipping on the old nature can seem very comfortable – natural even. When
we do that we only prove that we don’t love God with our all. We slice out pieces of our lives – compartmentalize
– and leave God out of them. We just
don’t see what some things in life have to do with God. Like it is none of His
business.
What we too easily forget is that we have
been bought with a price – the Cross. We
have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus.
We are newly created spiritually and the old things .. the natural … is
behind us .. that is unless you stuck some in your pocket in case you needed it
some day! Everything has spiritual
context. And we need to be reminded of
that .. because we forget in the heat of the moment or at the point of
temptation or the desire to get along.
We don’t see sin as sin, but simple choices that we have a right to
make. Uh ….. no we don’t. We gave up your rights as sinners when we
were born again by faith in Jesus. If we
have a problem with seeing sin as sin .. and preferring to live in the natural
it is because we have distanced ourselves from the fundamentals of the
faith. Our hearts have grown cold toward
God .. no matter how often we go to church or what we tell other people or try
to convince ourselves.
Now if the person I have described is not
you, but you know someone that the “shoe” fits, then point them, lovingly, back
to God. That is your responsibility as their Brother or Sister … as a disciple
of Jesus … as a child of God.
By Faith Alone By His Grace Alone And For
His Glory Alone
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