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We Are All IN This World, But It Depends On How We Traverse Our Time Here.
We are all IN this world, but it depends on how we traverse our time here.
Some don’t know their place or role and wonder through life trying to figure out why there are here. Others completely settle in and fully embrace all that the world offers. In both these scenarios, as today’s verse admonishes us, do not just be 'in' or a 'part of it' for two reasons.
First, your life — and your time in this world — will be here and gone quickly as Jesus said, “The grass of the field is here today, but tomorrow is cast into the oven.” Second, we are to be HOLY. This means to be separate from this world and not immersed in it’s ways or pleasures because we are just passing through. As Christians we are neither Strangers or Citizens of this world because “Our Citizenship Is In HEAVEN” (Philippians 3:20) where we have been promised to have “A building of God in a house not made with hands that is eternal in the heavens.” (2 Corinthians 5:1)
Earth is not our final HOME, but a temporary one. Mark 4:19 likewise warns us about separating ourselves and not being caught up in “…the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in.”
Christian, you are just Passing Through! Keep moving towards the high calling that God has placed before you and look to the eternal promise that is yours through Christ.
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What determines how you make decisions? Is it based on what you see, how you feel, or what you think? If so, you might want to rethink that because this is not what the Word of God tells us how to live.
When most people hear the word 'obedience' they often bristle because it goes against our human nature of putting ourselves first because our natural tendency is to want to be in control of our own lives, but God has a better plan!
You see when we listen to God’s guidance, heed His direction and faithfully apply the instruction in His Word, we will always be both in His Perfect Will, and as Joshua 1:8 promises, “Prosper and succeed in all you do.”
Obedience to God and choosing His ways is not always easy, and the British author and lay theologian G.K. Cheserton put this well saying:
It’s not that the Christian faith has been tried and found difficult, but rather it’s been found Difficult and left untried.
So Christian, do not live your life by what you FEEL, but be obedient in FAITH and God will always safely and successfully direct your path.
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An artist friend and I once were in a little country antique store. From floor to ceiling were interesting items from home, farm, and field. As we walked through there on a hot, humid afternoon, she suddenly stopped at one picture that was not hidden behind piles of junk. It was a painting that she had created many years ago that had become LOST over time into the world but now was FOUND, and she immediately REDEEMED it, joyously bringing it back to herself.
Likewise, we are like that lost painting! We were made by our creator, LOST in this world, but have always been a precious picture in God’s eyes. Just like my artist friend, God also delights in finding and redeeming us back and does so with something far great than money, and that is the Blood of Christ which was paid for our redemption.
Friend, the Bible tells us that Christ came into this 'store of the world' to “To seek and to save that which was LOST.” [ Luke 19:10 ] There’s just one catch! Don’t be hiding behind the junk of this world, but be open to being found!
While God is seeking you, you ought also to be seeking Him.
Are you open to being found?
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