Ever tried to conform Jesus to your world? I did for years. I’m grateful it didn’t work.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear (let him understand what the Spirit is saying).
Matthew 11:15
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them (are we like the world or like Christ?).
Matthew 7:20
Sometime ago, I wrote about the two cars in two lanes heading for a point where there was a single lane ahead due to road work. The two drivers would not yield and bumped their cars into each other.
While laying in bed yesterday morning, the Holy Spirit told me I can’t let the end times lawlessness impact me to the point that it robs me of God’s peace and fruit. I can’t let lawlessness pull me away from what I have in Christ. I can’t let it conform me to the world and the mess it’s in. I need to stay in Christ and not let my heart grow cold to Jesus, and to His love that overcomes this world.
The world will try to conform us to it if we let it. Jesus tells us not to be conformed to the world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds to His Word, to His ways.
Because lawlessness is increased, the love of most people will grow cold.
Matthew 24:12 AMP
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:19-23
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me (around me); my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psalm 3:3
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27
Thanking and praising God in all things,
Mark
Note: While we may not agree with everything a particular church or Christian group teaches or believes, there are times when we can be blessed by something outside the realm of our current understanding of God.