Hello blog readers, As I am sure you've noticed I have not written for some time. The truth is I was discouraged and my exuberant evangelical fervor was put on hold[much to some relief perhaps] and I had to step back and examine my motives.
A blog writer , and perhaps many writers really write for them selves , It not that we do not want to share our views, however, we hopefully will not take it personally when we get little or no encouragement by way of comments. But I did take it personally, I allowed my passive aggressive, resentful Adam nature to come out in my email comments when I sent link alerts. To be truthful I fill a little silly! But I take heart in the knowledge that we writers are often odd balls {Steinbeck,} so maybe there is hope for me. And I still think I have a valuable message to share.
You see friends I discovered something that changed my life and got my focus off me and my internal self and found a platform to stand on that is eternal. Oh yes along the way of my Christian life I heard many good and true teachings and even felt victory on occasion. But never did I know I could loose and find my life in another, as I was held in the place of my human nature, and that nature always found itself back in the world of sin and sadness , perhaps more so as a Christian , as I was supposed to know the difference, and be obedient to my new found hope, and was never able to for long. I was taught over and over in my Christian experience that we who know Christ are different, would find peace, hope joy. If this was so why did I do the very things I did not want to do? And how could I stop? Perhaps you my dear readers you have had on occasion similar thoughts?
Don't get me wrong I carry no allusions as to the continued struggle I face daily in the areas we all face. I have not arrived at a place of superior knowledge or have learned something that is not available to all who will study the Word of God. The door opened for me when , as I told of in my first blog , The promised Christian victorious life which was shown often by the Church failed for me. I was simply overwhelmed with the reality of my own sin nature and could not escape. You could say death emerged, I had no other choice it was either find a way or die.
As it turns out this is exactly where the Bible tells us we need to be, "life is not found in our flesh[human nature]" Enter the Biblical based simple, clear , doctrine of Identification/ Position. Life is found in another , in our new nature, as new men, in the New Man Jesus Christ. This it turns out is a concept which Paul was trying to drum into the heads of people just like us 2000 years ago , nothing has changed. This concept/mind set is taught clearly in Romans 5,6,7,8,. Please go there read it slowly ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to this truth. It it a living truth found in identifying ourselves in our newly renewed conscious mind as members in our nature of Christ Himself. Yes its hard to take into our presupposed mind as it is spiritual, and held only by Faith. But friends we have exercised this kind of faith in our belief when we first committed our lives to Christ. Why would we not be all that is offered and given by His Grace, and as the Bible says seek Him and our very existence,which the Bible tells us is hid with Christ in heaven. The price of admission to this kind of peace is the death of yourself to the world of sin and the acceptance in conscious awareness of your new life which is found for all Christians in Christ.
Sorry to have gone on for so long my next blog will be a sort of Biblical base teaching on just what Jesus meant when he said You must be born again! Hope you will join me!
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