Don't
Slip Back
Into
Your Old Ways Of Living
To
Satisfy Your Own Desires.
Scripture
1
Peter 1
13 So
prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your
hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus
Christ is revealed to the world.
14 So you
must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your
old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any
better then.
Observation
Backsliding
is a word that I have heard mentioned quite a bit ever since I first
started going to church with my girlfriend Kathy Bearden way back in
1968 – and 50 years later she is still my girlfriend and she is my
very best friend!
Before
you and I came to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ our old
way of living was our only way of living. We didn't know anything
else. But when Jesus Christ came into our lives to live within us
everything changed, and now we do know the difference.
Going
back to the old life to satisfy our own desires isn't going to cut it
anymore! You and I are not going to be happy campers if we slip back
into our old ways of living. God's Holy Spirit that lives within us
will make sure of that!
God
warns us over and over again in His Word not to yield to the flesh
and slide back to our old ways of living.
Proverbs
14:14
Backsliders
get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.
Romans
8:3
“...
So God did
what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the
bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s
control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
1
Corinthians 10:13
13 The
temptations in your life are no different from what others
experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to
be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a
way out so that you can endure.
Application
I
will be careful not to slip back to my old ways of living and I will
help those who have yielded to temptation. I will try to help them
get back on track.
How
about you? Are you walking in sobriety and in victory?
James
5
19 My
brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and
someone should bring that person back,
20 remember
this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will
save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
2
Corinthians 5:18
All
this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, help me live a godly life in an ungodly world. Help me
influence those around me to walk in Your direction and don't let me
be influenced to walk in my old ways of life.
I
pray for those striving to walk in sobriety. Give them victory. Don't
let them slip back into their old ways of living. Help them, Lord.
Bring people alongside them who will support them.
There
is always the temptation to sin. Give me the strength to say 'no' to
sin. Don't let me miss the way out that You always provide!
Daily
Bible Reading: Isaiah 36,37; Psalms 76; 1 Peter 1
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