BELIEVE IN HIM, OR LIVE FOR HIM?
At the end of a video my friend Jerry sent me, there was a
statement that arrested my attention: “The question is not, ‘Do you believe in
God,’ but ‘Are you living for Him?’” The speaker confirmed the fact that the
devil believes in God, and we see proof in the Bible. When Jesus was tempted by
the devil, the devil quoted scripture to Jesus to try to trick him. The devil “saith unto
him, ‘If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, . . . .”
(Matt. 4:6).
In James 2:19, the Apostle James tells us this truth: “Thou
believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and
tremble.” Believing in the true God is great,
but living for Him takes faithfulness and determination to follow through to
the end. Are we strong enough and are we willing? Yes, we are.
Living for God and yielding to the leadership of Jesus
Christ, is the only thing that makes real sense in this world. Family is great,
yes, and happiness is great, yes. But when it’s all over, what do we have to
show for our lives, if we’ve said no to the opportunity to walk on the side of
the one who created us and loves us more than anyone?
Let’s step up to Jesus today and ask what we can do for him.
We ask for the blessing of what it says in Philippians 2:13: “God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Just for today. Do
tomorrow when it gets here.
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof” (Matt.
6:34). And Psalm 118:24 tells us: “This is the day which the Lord hath
made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Love, Carolyn
You can get my publications on Amazon: Great keys to living
a Christian life every day. I’m starting to get the chapters together for
WINGS: A Journey in Faith Volume 3. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=BOOKS+BY+cAROLYN+mOLICA&crid=16D4X7I4BV76Z&sprefix=books+by+carolyn+molic%2Caps%2C450&ref=nb_sb_noss
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