Thursday, February 27, 2020

Living Like Your Lost - It's Easier Than You Think


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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