Thought 138
Choices
The choices you have made are determining your life. Do you compromise? Are you following Jesus? These choices will determine a lot about your life. The same principle applies to large groups of people. Has a church become as wicked as the newly believing Corinthian Church or faithful like the Bereans? Again, choices determine a lot.
Many Christians are not very different from the world other than the fact that they believe in the Lord Jesus and this is largely because of individual choices. They watch the same movies, are addicted to the same porn, take the same drugs, speak the same foul words, believe the same lies about male and female relationships, and the worst thing, is that many in the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, have prostituted themselves. Yes, prostituted! Because they are intimately connected and entwined in the fallacies and lies that entangle the Lost! . . . Come to the Lord. He is here, waiting to take you back in His arms, to forgive you and restore you with the full privileges of sonship, adopted into His family.
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2 NIV1984
“Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.” James 4:8-10 NIV1984
Read Luke 15.
This devotion may have struck a chord with your heart, and if it really did, let the Lord speak to you and don’t read on. To those that read this objectively or had the Holy Spirit testify within in you that you are being faithful with your life, I ask you, and I believe our Lord Jesus would commend you as well, to pray for those who have read this devotion today—or will read it at some later date—that they may hear the Holy Spirit clearly and respond as the Lord convicts them. Please just pause right now and pray.
