I can not speak for anyone else. I lived a very rough life before the Lord said to my spirit that was just about enough and showed me a different way through putting a couple very decent people in my life that Loved God and lived in the respect of his will. So a little over 15 years ago, things changed in my life and have remained changed until this day. I personally do not believe in any way that anyone has been a Christian all their life, even tho they may try to make others believe that they have that Holy than tho mentality. There is only three that are Holy and that us the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Now imagine living the life that many of us lived prior to becoming a Christian. Remember the way we sinned, how that sin caused us to sin more. How that accumulated over a period of time to become emotional and sometimes intense pain, emotionally and physically. How we got older in living in that sin and we taught others to sin and they taught us how to, it was a vicious circle of the insanity of sin. It domino's constantly to keep us addicted to it. People are not just addicted to drugs, alcohol, relationships, work, and other things. But people are addicted to sin, for all the mentioned addictions are sin. So we must know the depth of denial that we were in, others were and many still are in.
Once we realize through Christ and cut through the denial and understood pain and suffering actually accompanies sin. We must then realize, that when we sin or others sins it affects everyone including family members around us. Thus causing them to sin along with receiving the pain and suffering that goes along with sinning. Simple huh, then why did it take me and others 30 years to figure it out, because we didn't, Jesus Christ loved us enough to show us that.
I know, a lot of talk about sin. But bear with me. My point is, if we are not actively living in Christ. Then we are sinning still yet. We can call ourselves Christians all we want, but if we are not actively being Christians together with others in the Unity of our Savior Jesus Christ, then we are in denial and living in sin in one form of another. Unless we are in the Arctic, living alone. Now, imagine Jesus Christ on the Cross and dieing, as he was dieing, all of our sins were placed on him. Now you know how bad one of us felt when we were sinning. I can't even begin to imagine the pain and suffering that Christ felt before he died with having at minimum, billions of peoples sins placed on him, what a mighty Man in God he must have been. Not only to live a sinless life, but to have all of our sins placed on him while he hung dieing on the cross. To have been hanging on that Cross and all those sins of pain and suffering placed on him to carry and still breath for one more second, let alone how long he actually did breath while he hung on that cross. He did carry that load unto death. No wonder he died without having his legs broke as was custom at the time. He died for us, with our sins on him. He did that for each of us, all of us.
Now look at us today, scattered about in our daily lives. What I hope and pray that is our future in being Christians consist of. Is that we unite in Christ and stand together as Christians, so that we may teach others about Christ and how much we love him and he loves us. To stand for Christians here in the USA, stand for Christians through out the world, and thus stand for Christ. We must make the decision to live as Christians each day and Unite, come together as Christians to serve others and our faith(our Lord). Let us all be registered voters. Lets us all support the Will of God each day by living through his Son and following his words in the Bible. Let us all support our families and each other, let us all support our Ministries, let us all serve Christians everywhere, let us all teach those who do not know Christ who he really is and thus serving them too. Let us start today and everyday this way. Let us stop being in denial of the way we are and the way things truly are around us. Let us do something about it all as Christ would and did, in a peaceful loving way together.
Pray each morning for God's Will to be done in your life, start you day in being a Christian. Start at home and work your way out from there one day at a time. And actually do a little more each day for the Lord and you will surprised what you are able to accomplish as a Christian. I promise you, that your life will become fuller and more complete in happiness. Let us remove sin from our own lives so that we can teach others how to remove it from theirs. To do that, we have to do what Christ did. Not just talk it, as some people do, but live it each day. To become sinless by serving Gods Will. May Almighty God Bless us all in accomplishing his goals.
Reverend Kevin |