I die DAILY...

On my journey as a Christian, one of the many lessons I first learned was to cruicfy, or kill, my flesh. Not literally of course. I mean not to indulge in the sinful pleasures or desires of my flesh. Whether they be my nasty attitude when somebody say something I don't like, my lustful desires toward the opposite sex, or my unforgiving thoughts toward someone. God wants us to quickly handle these issues by dying to our flesh. Becoming numb to the hunger pains to feed into the negativity and immorality of sin. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:31,"...I die daily." He meant everyday he has to kill his flesh. We cannot walk in the flesh. Driven by our own ways and thoughts. We must adpot the mindset of Christ in every area of our life. Jesus understood that we were made flesh, he told his disciples in Matthew 26:41,"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." He forewarned us of our frail bodies and strong spirit. We must exercise our faith in God and build up our most holy faith by praying in the Holy Ghost. (Jude 1:20)
God has helped me to understand that my flesh will always put up a fight. The more I try to concentrate on the right things, seems like there is even more chaos. Even the apostle Paul understood that when he desired to good that evil was always present. (Romans 7:21) We are always going to face challenges in our lives as well as challenging people but the hope we have is in Christ that greater is HE that is in YOU, than he that is in the world. God said, we have overcome them. (1 John 4:4) We have to stay in a place of love and fellowship with God so that we can take on his characteristics. Because we are born in the flesh and of the flesh, everyday, we have to make a descicion to put on the mind of Christ. To lay down our way of thinking and take own the attributes of our maker. This my friends, is not an easy task but definfintely possible.


As we let love reside in our hearts, this task of dying to our flesh becomes easier and easier. Although, I have not mastered this quest, I am gaining more understanding through different stages of my life. I am now beginning to fully understand the importance of dying to your flesh over the need to be right, over the need to have friends, over the need to be loved or even considered. When I gave my life to God, it was a commitment to him to give him my life in its entirety. For him to change everything about me that wasn't like him. I believe what hurts people the most is that we can't accept that everone does not think the same way we do. We are disturbed by our own differences. Every one grows and develops at different stages of life. We all don't mature at the same time, or even with age. We as people want to love and be loved. To accept and be accepted, but God said come out from among them (THE WORLD) and be ye seperate, and touch not the unclean thing. (1 Corinthians 6:17) So that simply states, if the people surrounding you don't have the same mindset, toward the faith, or even in living a clean God-fearing life, then we ought to seperate ourselves. Nothing personal between you or that person but because we are of the flesh and are trying to stay out the flesh we have to keep ourselves around like minded people that are trying to do the same thing. I mean its temptation enough alone to curse somebody out, ignore them, and judge them, then to have somebody feeding the negativity. Cheering you on when you do wrong or get somebody told. We have to stregthen each other in the faith. Now Im not saying you can't talk to your friends anymore once you get saved. Im simply saying if you know you not strong enough to stop doing wrong with the samr cirlce of friends. Remove yourself until you are strong enough to do so. If they are really your friend they will understand your transition and be glad to see a positive change in you. We must run this race til the end.


In this race there are many hurdles. There is always going to be a crowd of people in the stands, (not even running the race you are) that have something to say about how you running your race. If we were to stop running to run in the stand and acknowledge and dispute every word spoken against us we would then loose focus, get off track, and ultimately loose the race. The devil would lov eto side track us in the flesh. He will try everything to distract us from pressing toward the mark. Paul said in Galations 5:7,"Ye did run well: who did hiinder you that you should not obey the truth?" Im asking you? Who hindered you? What hindered you? Our own flesh? Our own thoughts and ways? Make the decision everyday to cruify your flesh, and to let patience have its perfect work in you. Choose to love and not hate. Choose to forgive na let stuff go. Choose life over death my friends. Die today that we may live tomorrow. In Jesus name. Amen.


Thank you for reading todays post. I pray you got something out of it. Please remember to spend time in the word and prayer everyday as it is essential in your walk with the Lord. I am always here to answer any of your questions, comments, concerns, and prayer requests. I can be reached here on the blog, or Facebook under Chrissy Divine. Twitter: @chrissylachae and my email deliveranceisontheway@gmail.com . As always, thank you for your love and continued support. May the Lord add a blessing to the hearers and doers of his word. Amen.