Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
If you were given the opportunity, now that you’ve been saved, to go backwards, what would you share about Christ?
Some of us spend so much time wishing away and running from the bad memories of the lives we may have had growing up in poor neighborhoods with poor parents. We may have even grown up with the idea of prosperity being a curse when we may have seen others make it out and live a decent life and the first thing you hear is, “they think they are better than us!”
Being equal did not mean respecting one another as man or woman having the same opportunities, being equal literally meant if I don’t prosper, neither do you and if I don’t make it, neither should you.
Again “who do you think you are?” This is where death lives! Where everything around you seem alive, moving, hustling, making it, but there is moral death, value death, ethic death, dream killers, resource killers and spiritual dormancy. Surviving becomes vicious and unpredictable. Family and friends are only takers, poor parenting is given pats on the back, but talked about in whispers and relationships are only the ones where you control, or you are controlled.
The last thing anyone seems to want is God.
From what is locked in our memories, now that we are saved, is the knowledge of the only wants that people grabbed for were lust, desires, lies, perverted passions and detrimental choices that often left a dire circumstance with consequences.
Still until this day there is residue of our past lives that God is still rooting up and plucking out from what we yielded to and were held captive to, our sinful nature.
Who other, have we known that desires to clean this mess up within us but Christ?
Though others may have tried to point us in the right direction, it seems short lived, for where many blind and deaf people live, who can truly see or hear to help guide others?
The Word of God tells us that Christ came to die for us, to set the captives free that we may live?
It is not until our choices produce bad fruit that the stench becomes unbearable, the situation becomes stressful, and the consequence leaves everyone out on their own. In the folly of our sin, all is good until someone gets hurt, but this only becomes an issue if you are the one getting hurt. We can see the effect of the lives of others around us and not care what they go through or experience; the reason being we are all in the same boat in the flesh.
Yet I consider, now that we have encountered getting out of the boat with Christ, what do we do with this encounter? Now that’s something to pray about!
Until Next Time Beloved, Read the Word to Know Him!
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