Colossians 2:6-7 – 6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Do we live for Him, or do we live for us?
It’s a question that we really need to ask ourselves. Because when we live for ourselves we have a tendency to completely choke out our relationship with God. It’s a spiritual issue. Test it and see. The more you listen to Christian music, read Christian books, watch Christian TV, attend church a couple of times a week, you’ll constantly be praising the Lord in between. You’ll be thinking of the things you have been filling your spirit with.
3Ephesians 5:8-10 – 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord.
On the flip side if all you’re thinking about is worldly things which pass away. Jesus isn’t in that. If you’re doing things like this:
Galatians 5:19-21 – 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
You might be in more trouble when you take your last breath than you wanted to believe or anticipated.
The scripture right before it tells us to live by the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16 – 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Habits. Habits, Habits, Habits. What we fail to sometimes realize is that habits are formed by the conditioning of the flesh, or the conditioning of the Spirit. We can also put in there the lack of conditioning the Spirit. Having a drink almost every night is a habit. Smoking or having a chew on a regular basis is a habit. Thinking thoughts of worldly or fleshly things all the time is a habit. Reading the Word everyday is a habit. Turning that radio to a good Christian station instead of one that’s not is a habit.
We need to live for Jesus, because without Him we are not living a life with purpose of which our Creator had in mind.
I leave you concerning this post today with this:
John 15:1-8 – 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.