May 24, 2014

DJ

Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds

Part of our human side is that we lie in various ways. It may not seem like a blatant lie to us but when we withhold the truth we are not telling the truth…

Leaving our human nature aside and moving forward with The Spirit is what God would like of us so that we can show others more of His nature.

God shows us grace and mercy every day by forgiving the many things we do wrong in our lives. Living with that forgiveness allows us to bask in God’s great love.

May 23, 2014

DJ

1 Corinthians 15:46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

Our physical bodies have to have life breathed into them to start us going. God created us so that when we are born the body starts into motion and does not stop until the physical body dies.

Our spiritual bodies have to grow as well, being given life through our accepting Christ into our lives.

We can use our physical bodies to gather spiritual food so that when we do die, our spiritual selves can take on the meaning of life for us and live with God.

We need to make sure our spiritual bodies are fed enough whilst we can because we will be living that spiritual life for a long time.

May 22, 2014

DJ

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

We can marvel all we like at the complexity of our bodies and glorify God for all that He has created us to be, but if we just look at these earthly bodies then we are limiting our outlook!

We know we have a better place than just to live inside these earthly bodies because God shows us this and tells us this. Whether we look at this as the time we will have when we get to heaven or before that should not matter.

God gave us an eternal soul into which he wants to bring love, joy, peace and all the other fruits of The Spirit.

May 21, 2014

DJ

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

We do know deep inside that we have been created by God; but whether those thoughts come to the surface or not depends on how we spend our lives.

If we focus on the world and all the evil within, we will keep our eyes and hearts on all of that evil; when goodness starts to surface it will be drowned by that evil.

Satan is the master of cover because he will cover our good and righteous thoughts with all manner of evil so that we do not focus on those good and righteous things.

Unless we leave behind those evil things, we will never rise above them.