December 31st 2015
21 day fast (day 2)
BEING A CHRISTIAN IS NOT EASY ( whoever told you that is a
liar)
It’s been a tough one I’m not going to lie, for one my body
is craving sugar like nobody’s business. I want to put things in my mouth all
day long especially when I make things for the kids that I don’t get to eat. I’ve
never enjoyed a fruit smoothie so much. It’s funny because I’m not starving
myself I’m just demanding my flesh to eat what I tell it to which most of the
time isn’t what imp use to. Some of the things God has shown me today is that
submitting your flesh is not just a 21 day thing it’s a lifelong thing, something
that a follower of Christ should do on a daily basis. Don’t watch that movie, don’t
listen to that song, don’t be angry at your husband, don’t yell at your kids, don’t
run away from your problems and bury yourself in your social media. It’s a constant
war with yourself. Being a true follower of Christ is not easy people it’s so
so so hard sometimes but yet it’s so
rewarding and we get to experience the God whose love transcends all understanding
and in turn gives us peace and joy and hope for an eternity in heaven. We get
to cheat death people do you hear what I’m telling you. It’s hard to stand up
for Christ but then I ask myself why would I base my whole life and do things
like fast stuff that I like or even love on a lie? But that’s what some people
think this is all a fake thing. Sometimes I want to say to those doubters do
you think I’m that dumb to give up my whole life and who I am…. on a lie? No thank
you!
WE ARE NOT READY FOR THE EVIL THAT IS COMING
Another thing God showed me today is that we are not ready
for the evil that is coming and is already here. Paul warns us in Col 2 see to
it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophies
which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of their
world rather than on Christ. He warns believers not to confuse true doctrine
with the heresies that abounded in the Colossian church…this heresy described
is very persuasive it is based on (human tradition) instead of divine
revelation. This elitist, intellectual group possessing unusual intelligence,
knowledge and wisdom, relates to a worldly philosophy with the practice of
ceremonial rituals. Can you think of some ceremonial rituals that are considered
to be perfectly normal but end up deceiving you and taking you captive? The Gnostic idea that Jesus never existed as
a genuine human being but rather had a phantom or angelic spiritual form which
contradicts the reality of Jesus as both divine and human.
Col 2:18-19 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility
and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail
about what they have seen: they are puffed up with idle notions by their
unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole
body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinew, grows as God causes
it to grow...
Paul also tells us Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not
touch!
1st Thessalonians 5:6 so then let us not be like others,
who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
I think it is time for me to wake up and see the evil and
face it with the power that raised Christ from the dead face to face and stand
up so that on the day Jesus comes back I not asleep but waiting and eagerly
ready!!
*just me*
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