Do you ever wonder why it is so hard sometimes as a Christian to “be” a Christian. Well you might be asking, “what do you mean by Christian?” I think a person who says they are a Christian is a person who follows Christ with their actions! The word Christian means “little Christ” or “follower of Christ.” Now are we going to be perfect? No, but should we strive to be? Yes. So if you are seeking to follow Christ or are trying to be a little Christ this is for you!
We all go though different seasons of life; things are going great, super tired, financially impossible, worn out emotionally, etc. Despite what season you are going through I think we can fall into a funk of going through the motions spiritually. Yesterday I had a devotions that I put a bookmark in that I wanted to go back to. It was Romans 6:11. It says,
“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
It really spoke to my heart in a fresh way. I asked myself, ”Do I consider myself dead to sin and alive in Christ?” I think that there are so many times we read the bible just to read but forget to ask God, “WHAT ABOUT ME? HOW AM I DOING? SEARCH ME GOD? SHOW ME WHERE I AM AT!”
I know that I have been forgiven and that my sins gone. But I do think that we need to remember to consider ourselves through our daily living living in seeking to follow Christ to remember that we are dead to sin and Alive in Christ!. I feel encouraged today knowing that, remembering that so that I may be ALIVE.
2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:2
So how do we get tripped up into being tired, depressed or just flat out forget about God? I think it it because we forget we are dead to sin. As I was encouraged today, I want to encourage you to remember what Christ has done for you daily. Wake up thanking God for the life he has given you. Thank Him for the Cross, thank Him for your salvation, thank Him that you are forgiven and free, thank Him for your family, thank Him for His goodness, Thank Him!
24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24
Live to righteousness today! He paid the price for our sins! By His wounds we have been healed! Be dead to sin today. Let us not go back to any former ways but let us press on and go forward and live out our salvation.
In His Mighty Grip,
Mark
http://marksalazar.org
Hi Mark,
Your post just helped me to do the right thing, “He paid the price for our sin” if Jesus been the Son of God was afflicted, humiliated and murder, after all that He still forgave us.
Then! who are we to keep grudges against our neighbor and not been able to forgive them?
I know that my enemies will be my enemies as longer they want to. My obligation as Christian is to forgive them, if I want to live like Christ.
For me “forgiveness” is the hardest part of been a Christian. But I’ll always try to have a forgiven heart.
Amen! There is a book I have that is titled, “70×7″ that talks about forgiveness. It is our job to seek forgiveness and to forgive. The rest is up to the other person and the Lord. I am glad God spoke to you through His Word.