Wanna get from point A to point B? You gotta be active. Not passive. Got some goals you’d like to achieve? It’s gonna take action. Not just reaction. Yeah, you gotta be a doer not just a hearer if you wanna get things done. And effective faith is like that too.
Active, not passive, faith can produce a better you.
For example, check out what Paul told the Colossians about some of their bad habits. And see if what he said was doable without action.
“But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,”
There’s a lot of putting on and putting off action packed in that short passage. And multiple components. With one eternal wow factor result when you DO the action. But there’s the rub. Because it’s those darn components that make the doing so difficult.
Let’s take me, for example. I’ve always had a reasonably long fuse when it comes to anger and wrath. But when I was younger, and reached the end of that fuse, the explosion could more than rock the boat.
And beware the wrath that went along with it.
Thankfully I didn’t bear malice toward anyone. And I didn’t have a problem with blasphemy. But I wish I could say no filthy language ever came out of my mouth. Fortunately I drew the line at f-bombs and that kind of cursing. But I missed God’s mark by a country mile.
I’m pleased to say that, with advanced age, enough wisdom made it into my thick skull to help me put on the new man. Because I’m confident in the knowledge that I’m renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created me. And that brings me massive comfort and hope.
Just to be clear, it’s not what I DO or did that produces that result. It’s what Jesus DID that gives me the courage, desire, and strength to keep my faith active and not passive.
I hope you have that kind of connection with your Creator. Because…
All Of Creation
All of creation points to the Savior.
We are all here by design.
All the environment and complex behavior…
The Glory of God makes it shine.
All of creation holds information…
Encoded within every cell,
All of the best minds in each generation
Won’t banish what Christians know well.
That…
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All of creation is here by the Word of God.
And all of creation mirrors His mind.
All of creation is saved by the Love of God
All of creation…Jesus defined. © 2016 TF
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