So many people who claim to be
Christians are living lives as if they are fearful of what others may think of
them. They walk around with their heads
down, and a not looking very cheerful at all.
They do not look like someone who is walking in the light but like
someone walking in the dark. Christ told
His disciples, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If
anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light
of this world. But if one walks in the
night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”(John11:9-10) You may say, that is easy to say, so what
does that mean for us? When Christ said this,
His disciples had just warned Him that where He wanted to go people wanted to
kill Him. What Christ is saying, He
saying I am walking in complete obedience to God and doing His will for my
life. What that means for us as believers
is that we have nothing to fear not even death, for there is nothing that can
stop God’s plan for our lives, as long as we are following Him.
Chronicles
25
It
is easy for us to get caught up in what is going on in the world around us,
then all of sudden before we know it we are drowning in all the problems we have. During those times we can easily forget about
taking time out with God, taking that half an hour or hour with God. We think we have to get things done and
figure out where to get the money to pay the bills, and kids are screaming so
on and so on. We begin to forget that God
is there waiting for us to turn to Him, but the longer we don’t go to Him the
closer we are walking into the darkness.
Before we know it we are coming to Church on Sundays but that’s it, we aren’t
praying we aren’t reading our bible. We
begin to live in fear, walking around with our heads down, and seeing the world
in a view of there is nothing we can do
to fix our lives, and wondering how did we get here? There is great news, we serve a God that
wants us to come to Him and pray to Him, allow Him to take over our lives and
Guide us into the light.
Paul says in Romans
8:31-39, “ What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for
us, who can ever be against us? Since
God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t God, who
gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for
his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with
himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he
is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the
place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s
love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are
persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? (Even the Scriptures say, “For your sake we
are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”*) No, despite all these things, overwhelming
victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And
I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t,
and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. Our fears for today, our
worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away.
39 Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean,
nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God
that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
As we see we need no
longer live in fear, we no longer need to worry about the world around us. We only need to live in Christ, we need to
allow God to come in and understand that with God on our side we need not fear
even death. I like what Thomas says
after Christ tells them live in the light. “ Let
us also go, that we may die with Him.”(John 11:16) Are we willing to live our lives for God
without fear, understanding that we do not have to fear death? Are you able to say I will go with Christ and
die with Him?
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