Monday, May 21, 2012
Skillet Rebirthing video
This is a song about being born again. I know it's head banging hard rock but listen to the words :) This song makes me feel like I can do anything!!!!
Standing for Christ no matter what
We read a verse of scripture yesterday at church that really stood out to me.
v. 35- If someone that I love chooses not to Follow or believe in Christ, I have an obligation to the Lord NOT my family member to keep on following and loving Christ. God has to be more important to me than this person's opinion of me.
v. 36 - This is hard because I do feel that I have family members who are hostile to the biblical principals that I choose to live by.
v. 38- Taking my cross daily. What this means to me personally is that I have to leave the things of the world behind that I used to enjoy doing (that lead to death) and deny myself of these things so that I can live to please Christ.
This is major for me. In a society where everyone wants to "fit in" or be "liked by many", it can be hard to overcome the temptation to blend in with the world doing as they do. I've had a natural tendency to not want to rock the boat with my convictions on spiritual matters. The verse above tells me that I am making the right choices when I speak out against things that are wrong, regardless if it is concerning a family member, friend or anyone else. For the longest time I've kept quiet about things that have bothered me but I am saying no more to that!
This verse talks about how the gospel of Christs' life divides and separates us. I've experienced this in my life as well. People think I'm strange because I choose not to listen to secular music, use profanity, lie, and basically sell my soul. I feel like I am at war constantly, and I know that I am spiritually without a doubt. I don't care anymore about being a people pleasing person. I care about what the Lord says and that 's the most important thing to me. I believe that people get offended when you live for Christ simply because it convicts them of the wrong that they are doing in their own lives.
In Galatians 1:10 (ESV) Paul says "For am I now seeking the approval of man or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ".
The bottom line for me is that I want to graciously live to please the Lord. I'm not on a quest to Bible bash or be "holier than thou" I just have the desire in my heart to please the Lord and that's what my focus is. I will not apologize for that nor compromise in any way by God's grace. I have to stand for Christ because there is no alternative! He is the way the truth and the life!! (John 14:6) To God and only God be the glory!!
It was Matthew 10:34-39 (ESV) which reads: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 37
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and
whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
v. 35- If someone that I love chooses not to Follow or believe in Christ, I have an obligation to the Lord NOT my family member to keep on following and loving Christ. God has to be more important to me than this person's opinion of me.
v. 36 - This is hard because I do feel that I have family members who are hostile to the biblical principals that I choose to live by.
v. 38- Taking my cross daily. What this means to me personally is that I have to leave the things of the world behind that I used to enjoy doing (that lead to death) and deny myself of these things so that I can live to please Christ.
This is major for me. In a society where everyone wants to "fit in" or be "liked by many", it can be hard to overcome the temptation to blend in with the world doing as they do. I've had a natural tendency to not want to rock the boat with my convictions on spiritual matters. The verse above tells me that I am making the right choices when I speak out against things that are wrong, regardless if it is concerning a family member, friend or anyone else. For the longest time I've kept quiet about things that have bothered me but I am saying no more to that!
This verse talks about how the gospel of Christs' life divides and separates us. I've experienced this in my life as well. People think I'm strange because I choose not to listen to secular music, use profanity, lie, and basically sell my soul. I feel like I am at war constantly, and I know that I am spiritually without a doubt. I don't care anymore about being a people pleasing person. I care about what the Lord says and that 's the most important thing to me. I believe that people get offended when you live for Christ simply because it convicts them of the wrong that they are doing in their own lives.
In Galatians 1:10 (ESV) Paul says "For am I now seeking the approval of man or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ".
The bottom line for me is that I want to graciously live to please the Lord. I'm not on a quest to Bible bash or be "holier than thou" I just have the desire in my heart to please the Lord and that's what my focus is. I will not apologize for that nor compromise in any way by God's grace. I have to stand for Christ because there is no alternative! He is the way the truth and the life!! (John 14:6) To God and only God be the glory!!
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