Con-flicted

Wanting to live for God, but struggling to live for God –Conflicted! Everyone, and I mean everyone, faces and goes through this. I don't care how much you think you love God, living for Him can be such a struggle. How many have given up and just walked away. How many are on the verge of giving up because of feeling so conflicted!?

You can only ram you head against the wall so many times before you begin to wear out. Before your "Want to" begins to wane.

Here's a little advice, something Paul said – it might help.

Rom 8:1-2 Message;

8 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ's being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. 2 A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

I like the way the KJV puts it;

"...there is now no condemnation, no confliction to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit..."

Here's what that means, you can listen to your failing flesh all day long and let it bring one conflict after another to you or you can rest in what Jesus has done for you. It doesn't mean we quit trying to do right, but we rest in that even if we don't, in Him...with Him, there is no conflict about you.

Learn this and stay in the game, don't give up, because in reality that is the only way we lose. Give up and walk away and lose, stay in the game and let God be God and quit being so "Con-flicted." He is always on your side!

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Fighting Mad...

So many times when it comes to the passions we have in our lives we associate negativity with it...especially as Christians.

I have taught all my life that the Devil has no creative ability in him, in other words he can only take what God has created and pervert it. Therefore, all the passions that we experience in our emotions and flesh were created by God, so they are good things.

How about a couple of examples? How about lust– most generally considered to be evil, but how about lust for God or for the spouse that God has given you? how about lusting for the things of God? OK, enough of that.

Hate, how about because you love God– you hate the sin in your life? How about hating the things that the Devil does in and through people? How about hating the evil in this world? How about hating your addictions and the places that the enemy has caused you to go, or the family curses that have plagued your family?

Did you know that it is your emotions? Yes, even lust or hate can motivate you to make some necessary changes in your life. They can motivate you to obey God. Emotions will never sustain you– our faith does that. Sometimes you have to just get sick and tired of being sick and then you might do something about it!

I like it when Christians get fighting mad! Mad enough to do something about the junk in their lives...oh yeah!

Just something to think about: Let God use your emotions, Lord only knows the Devil has used them...

Love ya...