You are Part of a Body
Today I want to talk to you, about how you developed yourself to where you are now, in your walk with God. Becoming a Christian is designed to aid us, and cause us, to be victorious in our life. So, if Jesus wants to bring us victory, why then do we see so many not living a triumphant life? Are you happy where you are at, or do you think that there are some things that you are yet wanting in your new life with God?
This question comes up in many people’s lives. As we read in Proverbs 27:17, “Just as iron sharpens iron, a person sharpens the character of his friend.” There is a cleansing process in every relationship. Marriages grow up both the man and the woman, schools mature the untaught, and the old men can teach the younger men.
As a new or mature Christian, the worst thing that you can do for yourself is to not push yourself in to grow in God. Notice here in Mark 4:14-17,
“The sower sows the word. These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.”
There are four conditions of receiving the Word of God in this parable. Of those, the first two conditions are the most grievous, because, there is no lasting response in the hearer. In both conditions, there was no protection over the Word as the person was hearing it. When people get saved, and give their hearts to Jesus the Messiah, many believe that all their problems go away. But that is simply not true. So, Satan under his normal operation, just lets us think that tribulation, no matter how small, is a sign of “This Christian thing is not working”.
When we are in a community of saints, these attacks have much less an opportunity of occurring. The community of believers will guide you through whatever you are experiencing, and encourage you to keep on the proper path. The third condition given by Jesus in this parable is for the saints who have been saved for a period of time, maybe even years. But, when some event appears to rock their boat, they begin to give up on God, and say to themselves, “This isn’t working”. Look here again in Mark 4:18-19,
“And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”
These three types of people, after hearing the Word, and reaching various levels of growth and hearing, experience falling away from having a victorious walk with God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
When some non-believers witness this kind of behavior, the result is scorn for Christianity. The visible falling away empowers their hearts to mock God. Then the believers, see this as a bad witness for Jesus, and can begin to doubt themselves, that God is as powerful as He really is.
Our prayer for today,
Father Yahweh, Abba, Father! Take hold of me and do not let me go! I do not want to fall away, or be deceived by whatever I am experiencing. I believe that everything can be fixed and solved by You, in Jesus’ name, amen.
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