Deny Self and Find Life in God

I cannot live for myself and God at the same time.

The desires of the self are never in harmony with the desires of God.

If I want to choose God, I need to reject/deny myself.

The desires of the self are pride, greed, pleasure and so on.

The desires of God are compassion, grace, sacrifice and so on.

Both desires cannot co-exist in a person.

One cannot deny oneself without the help of God.

It takes a lot of effort, sincerity and prayer time to understand the truth and joy of self-denial.

Just like Christ died for us to give us life, we need to die to ourselves (our carnal self) to receive the life that God is waiting to offer us.

Let us earnestly seek God’s grace in our effort to die to ourselves – so that we may find life everlasting in God.

Seek Holiness and Become God's Child

God calls everyone to be his children. He shows no partiality.

However, we reject the calling when we don’t choose holiness.

We cannot say we choose God when we don’t give due importance to righteousness.

We cannot become the children of God, when we don’t seek purity.

God calls us but are we responding to the call by choosing to do what is right?

Even if we don’t have the strength to be perfect, do we at least have the desire to be pure?

God knows that no one is perfect; but, he helps those who are willing to make an attempt.

 

Holiness cannot be achieved by our own strength.

It requires an aggressive surrender to God in every walk of life – in thought, word and deed.

Are we willing to surrender ourselves to God so that he can make us holy?

Are we willing to try to desire holiness so that we can become God’s children?

God is waiting for us. Our life is a test that is made of moral choices.

We may not be able to be perfect; but are we willing to try with God’s help.

Jesus is willing to shape us to perfection if we let him to.

Judgement on Immorality

On the Judgment day ,
men who have exploited, abused and taken advantage of women will be brought to judgment and
women who have intentionally enticed, seduced and led men into committing lustful actions and thoughts will be brought to judgment
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With immorality and perversion becoming excessively widespread and accepted as the norm, let each of us repent and seek holiness by surrendering our life to Christ and walking close to him.

Forgiveness others by seeing our faults

Many times we find it difficult to forgive others because we are blind to our own faults.


The more we ask God to show us our sins and the more we struggle to come out of them, the more empathetic we become to those who have hurt us because of the same sins that they struggle with.


Let's ask God to give us the grace to see people with empathy and forgive them.

Find Christ and Escape Religion

Religion will make you hate God - because religion shows God as a moral monster waiting to get you for the smallest mistake.


But a relationship with Jesus will give you the desire to be perfect because you deeply love him and want to please him.


Repent and ask Jesus to come into your hearts - so that you can escape from the burden of religion.
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CONDEMNATION IS FOUND IN RELIGION - SALVATION IS FOUND IN CHRIST

Don't Fight Temptation - JUST RUN

Don't fight temptation, JUST RUN!!!
It is impossible to win a fight with temptation; so, JUST RUN!!!


Feel like watching Pron, shut down the laptop and get out of the room.
Feel like engaging in lustful fantacies, get up and get distracted....
Feel like committing unholy acts with self, get up and get out.
Entangled in emotional affairs, delete numbers and block concerned individuals.

One of the surest way to overcome temptation, is a strong prayer life and a closer walk with Christ.


So, how do you plan to handle your next encounter with temptation???

Overcoming Temptation - Difficult but Possible

It is sometimes very difficult to overcome temptation - but not impossible

In the end, giving into temptation is a choice that we make.

We have no one to blame but ourselves if we give into temptation.

Though, all our senses push us to give into temptation, we still have the choice to give in or not.

Man by nature is tempted to do the wrong thing.

He is ever struggling to choose God and righteousness.

The only way to overcome this struggle and naturally do what is correct is to surrender to God.

When man aggressively surrenders to God on a daily basis, God’s spirit begins to have union with man’s spirit and gives man the strength to choose what is right.

This union is possible because of what Christ accomplished on the cross.

Christ’s redemptive work on the cross makes man eligible to have a spiritual union with God though man’s soul is stained with sin.

When man calls out to God, God sees man as sanctified by the blood of Christ and is willing to have a spiritual union with man.

This spiritual union gives man the power to naturally choose what is right and overcome temptation.

Let us all surrender to God and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit that gives us the power over sin and death. Amen!!