Have you made any New Year resolutions? Were they the same ones you made last year and the year before that? When it comes to living up to our New Years resolutions, most of the time we fail to keep them. Our resolutions may be good, but we’re not strong enough in our flesh to keep them.
The Bible tells us that our flesh is weak and focused on the wrong things. We do not rule our flesh, our flesh rules us. The Apostle Paul tells us in the 7th chapter of Romans that ‘no good thing dwells within us’ and ‘that which I would do, I do not and that which I would not do, I do.’ The flesh is evil.
Our sinful flesh cannot be reformed by a resolution. It must be transformed by a commitment. That commitment is found in Romans 12:1 where God’s mercy implores us to commit ourselves to God as a ‘living sacrifice.’ When we do, we will find that the flesh no longer controls us. As we read God’s Word and allow the Holy Spirit to quicken it to our hearts, we will find ourselves transformed. Jesus explains it as ‘born again.’
Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:22-24 that Christ has taught us to ‘Put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And that you put on the new man created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness.’ Start the New Year right. Make a commitment to God.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
DO YOU KNOW THE WAY? by Ray Eddy
No, I’m not asking for directions to Santa Fe. I’m asking, do you know the way to find true meaning in life, the way to inner peace, the way to hope for the future, the way to forgiveness for the past, and the way to purpose in the present? Everyday life presents opportunities for us to choose which way we will go. A poem by John Oxenham challenges us to make correct choices.
“To every man there openeth a Way, and Ways, and a Way.
And the High Soul climbs the High Way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low.
And in between on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth a High Way and a Low.
And every man decideth the Way his soul shall go.”
Perhaps you are like Thomas and unsure about the way you should go.
He asked Jesus in I John 14:5b; “…how can we know the way? Jesus answered him in verse 6; “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Which way will your soul go when this life is over? Choose the high way;
choose Jesus.
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“To every man there openeth a Way, and Ways, and a Way.
And the High Soul climbs the High Way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low.
And in between on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth a High Way and a Low.
And every man decideth the Way his soul shall go.”
Perhaps you are like Thomas and unsure about the way you should go.
He asked Jesus in I John 14:5b; “…how can we know the way? Jesus answered him in verse 6; “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Which way will your soul go when this life is over? Choose the high way;
choose Jesus.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
LIFE GOES ON FOR AN ITTY BITTY WHILE by Ray Eddy
James 4:14 says; “Your life is like a mist, you can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.” Nobody lives one moment longer than what God allows. In Psalms 139:16 David declares; “All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.” Only God knows how long anyone will live.
This makes life very precious. No matter how many years we live it is but a moment in eternity. Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:8 that; “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
Psalms 90:12 says; “Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may live wisely.” In Ecclesiates Solomon tells us that the way man lives is vanity. There is no profit from labor, the eye is never satisfied, there is nothing new under the sun and that those who come after us will not remember us.
In God’s eyes no one lives longer than they should and no one dies untimely. What is important is how we live the time that God has given us and our relationship with God when we leave this earth.
Solomon concludes therefore in the last chapter of Ecclesiates; “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandants, for this is the whole duty of man.” The wise way to live is as God’s adopted son or daughter through believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior.
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This makes life very precious. No matter how many years we live it is but a moment in eternity. Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:8 that; “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
Psalms 90:12 says; “Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may live wisely.” In Ecclesiates Solomon tells us that the way man lives is vanity. There is no profit from labor, the eye is never satisfied, there is nothing new under the sun and that those who come after us will not remember us.
In God’s eyes no one lives longer than they should and no one dies untimely. What is important is how we live the time that God has given us and our relationship with God when we leave this earth.
Solomon concludes therefore in the last chapter of Ecclesiates; “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandants, for this is the whole duty of man.” The wise way to live is as God’s adopted son or daughter through believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior.
Read more blogs at http://www.HeartoftheCanyons.com
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