It's all about rights and as a Christian you have none. Seem harsh? Are you feeling defensive? Maybe your "rights" are getting in the way of your relationship with Jesus? Don't give me that "we have free will" argument. When you gave your life to Christ you gave up that free will to be and do what God wants; not what you want. Anywhere you find yourself engaging your perceived rights, you are not serving Jesus. If you have parts of you that aren't serving Jesus; what kind of Christian are you? Part time? Only when convenient? Or perhaps you are like Thomas Jefferson who professed Christ but removed those scriptures from the Bible that he didn't like. No, there is no APP for that. Surrender means just that...surrender of all of your so called rights. But I am getting ahead of myself. Just what was it and how did it come about that brought you to wanting Jesus in your life but not YOUR LIFE? There is a difference between having Jesus in your life (smacks of rights again) and Jesus being your life. Big difference. One you are in charge of thinking and in the other you enjoy Jesus doing the thinking for you. The Holy Spirit is welcome in one and excluded in the other. The Holy Spirit was sent (have you received the Holy Spirit?) to guide us in ALL that we think, say and do. If we are living our lives we constrain the Holy Spirit to those areas where we are comfortable. If Jesus is living our lives we know that Holy Spirit is also living our lives.
How can we think if we don't have the Word living our lives? Do we think that we can take our experience, training and mistakes to do better than God can do through us? What happens if we sit on our rights is as follows: you don't witness Christ, you cater to the needs of others rather than to the needs of Jesus, you minimize your Christianity instead of allowing Christ to maximize His life through you, you don't pray continually and unceasingly have the Word meditating in your head. Get the picture? Either you have Jesus living His life through you or you don't. You and I cannot serve two masters. If we do there is no allegiance to either. The focus is still on you. That's sin. Don't think so? Maybe you should read your Bible and understand the concept of being saved from your living and thinking. How many of you witness to people you meet? How many of you are bold as Christ lives through you? Are you afraid to confront the unbeliever and afraid to share the Gospel as well as afraid to offend? Then Christ doesn't live through you. What lives through you is your own thinking and your "rights" reigning instead of Him. How does that impact the world around you? It doesn't. Cults and Satan are doing their job better than you are doing yours. That's why the people perish and you don't care.
Jesus said it simply. Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, and mind. He also said that we needed to love our neighbor as ourselves. Truth be told if we can get out of the way, stop thinking and surrender our whole lives to Jesus; we will be loving the Lord our God. With that in mind, there is ample proof that if you are truly out of the way and Jesus is living his life through you there is no need for any of the other commandments. Because of your love for God and you having Jesus living through you, you and I will fulfill the desires of God's heart like loving others as you love yourself. You love true self when you understand the love of God as Jesus lives his life through you with the Holy Spirit. For God's sake, stop thinking! FOR GOD'S SAKE, STOP THINKING! Not when you like, not later, but now!
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