Love Not the World
Show the world the fruits of Christianity, and it will applaud; but show the world Christianity and it will oppose it vigorously. The so-called Christian nations ( my insight is the phrase “so-called Christian nation” includes the USA) are the outcome of a futile attempt to reconcile the world and Christ. Religious people attempt to overcome the world by removing themselves from it. Christians overcome the world by being other-worldly. There was a time when the church rejected the world’s ways. Now she not only uses these ways, but she also abuses them. The Christian way to solve the problem of loving the world is not by removing worldly things, but by delivering the heart from the grip of worldly things.
Give yourself to God; live for Him wholly and utterly. Why? Because “the world passes away, and the lust thereof, but he that does the will of God will abide with Him for ever. (1 John 2:17)
-from the writings of Watchman Nee -
My prayer for each of my reader’s and also for myself is that we give ourselves wholly to God. I can’t help but think of how many times I give God what he wants me to do when it is convenient for me or fits best in my weekly schedule. Does this sound familiar to you…can you relate? Well, when it comes down to it and we are completely honest with who we are and who God has created us to be, we fail the test time and time again. It’s amazing that God is an infinite and eternal King and His love for you and me endures forever. Even when we mess up God whispers to us and says, “I am a Father that loves you unconditionally, I created you in my own image and I am with you always.” Believers it is time for us not to go to church just to” sit, soak and sour.” It’s time for us to have a greater desire to know God to draw closer to God and to daily be renewed and transformed to be just like our Savior. The challenge is today “is we need to give ourselves wholly to God.” That baby that was born of the Virgin Mary certainly wasn’t ordinary. Jesus Christ came born as a baby to die for the sins of all humankind. He came to seek and save the lost… God our Father gave his only son Jesus to be crucified on our behalf. What a gift and today give our all to God.
Blessings,
Kirk
