Selfless Faith

Three words that can be the worse words ever created, or the best words ever used depending on the context they are used. These three words can be worse than the harshest profanities that exist. These three words are “I, Me, and You.” You ask, how can these three words be so bad or evil intentioned? The simple answer is due to the fact we are living in an evil, selfish generation. I, Me, and You can be used to display humbleness, meekness, and humility, but most often used for prideful thoughts, selfish desires, and deceitful acts.

We are constantly thinking about ourselves and what we want. When we pray to God, we ask over and over again give me this house, give me this mate, give me this job, give me, me,me. We ask for all of this because our self-centeredness makes us believe the universe revolves around us and for God’s glory to be revealed to the world, it must be through our selfishness.

However, God knows our heart. Those who ask for all earthly possessions will not receive it from God because He knows once we have it, we will want more. Before we even thank Him for what we do have, we plan our next wants and desires. Continue reading

Let’s examine a basketball game in the fourth quarter with 10 seconds to go; the home team‘s down by two and the clock winds down to one second, the star player shoots the three point shot, the commentator says he is going for it all and the shot…

My beloved, when we are in Christ, we must be in Him to the fullest so that His glory shines throughout the world of darkness. We cannot have one foot in this world and the other foot in Christ. Either we give our life entirely to Christ or we keep our pagan ways. So many times, we as Christians partake in the worldly dealing because we find it fun and interesting. We miss our old nature and we try to lie to God, but we are only lying to ourselves because God knows our hearts. Sin is degrading and disgusting and we should not find pleasure in it. Oh yes, our flesh surely finds pleasure in it, but our flesh will surely die at the Father’s calling. Let’s not let our spirit die with our flesh. Continue reading

So, your body is a temple for God. You will not eat certain foods, get certain markings or piercings. Is the “body” the real temple for God? How quickly we get misled by the flesh. God is more concerned with your spirit as His temple. Once you leave earth, your flesh will not go with you.

Jesus said, “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.” In essence, we can try to keep our flesh as clean and holy as we possibly can, but God does not see how any of us look in human form before He sees how we look in spirit form. If our spirit does not look appropriate, He will not even see the flesh. We are a multitude of spirits, His spirits, which He created, walking the earth to do His work. However, this condemned world leads us astray into the hands of the enemy.

But thank God, the One higher than all the Heavens and Earth that He sent His Son to redeem us so that we may know him once again! He is our Savior King!

When we take the literal approach to our body being a temple for God, we are easily led astray and continuously fall victim to the enemy’s attack. Our body is a temple, but if we only focus on the physical, it only becomes a temple for ourselves. We will set restrictions on our diet, how we exercise, and whatever else we feel is right to keep OUR temple beautiful.

I say, if we truly want our body to be a temple for God, we need to cleanse our spirit. Our spirit belongs to Him. There is nothing more that displeases our God than an unclean spirit. Without a clean spirit, nothing we do is in his name. Just look when Jesus cast the unclean spirits out of the men in the cave; they went into the pigs and the pigs preferred to die than be possessed by the unclean spirits.

So we don’t feed ourselves a certain type of food, but we feed our soul and spirit with hate and envy. We don’t listen to music too loud to preserve our hearing, but the music we listen to are filled with lustful, evil, and/or heinous acts. We don’t strain your eyes in the dark, but in the light, we watch movies that are filled with sex, murder, and hate. The list can go on and on.

My friends, if our temple belongs to God, then we must rid ourselves of the things that breaks the heart of God. Jesus freed us from the slavery we were in caused by our sinful nature. Now with this idea, we have freedom through Christ to do anything we want, but that will only lead us right back to the slavery we were once in! Let us not abuse the freedom He died for.

I don’t need to see it to believe it. I know you are there God. For this feeling of goodness and peace even while I walk through the desert is not something that I can provide for myself. Yet, my Lord, people say they must see You to believe You. Why won’t you reveal yourself to them if that is all they need to believe in you? Oh yes my Lord, it is obvious, they do not mean it. When you did show yourself, they did not believe you; when you died on the cross they did not believe you; when you rose again they did not believe you.

While the heart is hardened, no matter how obvious you appear to them, they will reject You. I know You are the God who provides all of what we need and not necessarily what we may want. You have been faithful to us despite our selfish ways. Although we constantly break our promises and commitments to you, you steadily stand firm on Yours. Why must we be like this Lord? Oh yes, that is right, we are nothing but mere humans and You are God. Lord, it is obvious that you exist. Even the ones who don’t believe in You must believe in You to acknowledge that You don’t exist. Continue reading

Looking back on life, before completely surrendering my life to the Lord Jesus Christ, I was certain that I was alive. This deception is one of the many favorites that are used by Satan himself. Recall, in Genesis chapter 3, the serpent told Eve that surely she would not die, and surely she did. As I think of the words I say unto you, if not my eyes are fill are filled with tears, certainly my heart pours them out. I was blind, but now I see. I was dead in my sins, but now I am made alive through the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ.

It has been said that we should forget our past, live for today, and look forward to the future. I cannot completely agree with that. We must never forget our past. It is an essential part of our lives. It is a constant reminder of how our lives were when we ourselves were blind and dead in our sins. If we try to block out our past, then we may end up in our past, looking forward to the future. In all honesty, God doesn’t forget our past either, but through the blood of Jesus Christ who hung on a cross for our transgressions and iniquities, each drop of blood that hit the earth was the drop of blood that covers ALL of our sins: the ones we did, the ones we may be doing now (even while reading this), the sins that are to come, those known and unknown to us, and even the many sins we don’t know exist. The blood of Jesus Christ covers it all. Continue reading