Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Live to Give

2 Corinthians 5:15  And he died for us so that we will all live, not for ourselves, but for Him who died and rose from the dead (Voice Bible).

A great correlation between Christ’s relationships with us is our relationship with our children. Before I had kids, it was all about me and my needs. I was able to go whenever I wanted and do whatever I wanted. I sowed so much into myself; one could call me selfish because it was ALL about ME! But when I first got word that another person was about to come forth into this world, that I was responsible for, the first thing I could think of was, “dang,” I won’t be able to sleep as often as I like to.” But once I saw her beautiful brown eyes, I knew I had to do everything for her and put me on the back-burner.

So it is when we give (not say, but give) our lives to Christ. Our lives are no longer to be lived for selfish pleasures, but to glorify our heavenly Father with everything we do and say. So when I want to sleep in when I know He wants me to get up and pray; I have to get up because lives are at stake. Lets go back to the day we asked Him to come into our hearts and save us, that in asking, we not only received salvation and the opportunity to sanctify ourselves daily, but we gave up what the world taught us in being selfish for doing what the WORD teaches us and that is to love and live as unto God. We've been purchased by the blood of Christ and our lives are no longer ours but we belong to God.


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