You can not serve God and mammon.
You can not be a people pleaser.
The dilemma:
As we navigate daily interactions with others we quickly conclude that all is not well relationally if we dare to voice truth.
God’s word in a lost and dying world is a life preserver.
Yet most will decide to drown in a sea of despair with the life buoy right beside them offering safety and relief.
Redeemed child of God:
Speak truth, throw the life line.
Misplaced desire:
Our desire for human love and acceptance easily silences our witness of God’s redemptive plan in our world, our family and our sphere of influence.
A desire to fit in is a spirit of bondage that makes you ineffective, unable to do that which your redeemed man desires to do.
This desire to fit in becomes a cord which entangles you and will prompt you to do that which you hate: hiding.
Your action cloaks or attempts to hide His light within you.
Our heart is well aware of its double minded state and the fact that its carnal nature is at war with the Spirit of God within us.
Therefore:
Our spirit must stay attuned to pleasing the Spirit of God within us.
This tuning will turn us to doing God’s will not your own.
The war within us seeks to separate us from our true call of obedience to Christ Jesus.
If we choose not to tune and turn:
Our witness when we refuse to stand for TRUTH will present
a warped mirror of Christ to others.
We are to mirror Christ not the individual.
Let them see Christ in you, not an idolatrous view of themself.
Be aware:
When you feed your flesh your spirit wanes.
Fire within you is fed by the oxygen of the Holy Spirit.
The breath of God.
Give place.
Give first place to God.
You have been redeemed.
You have been bought with a blood fulfilled covenant.
Our allegiance and first call is to serve the LORD.
~Debbie Turner Chavers
🌻Seed sowing to the glory of God.
You are loved.🌻
