As a triune Being, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To
give you an idea of how three beings make up one God consider these: One man is
a boy, a father and a grandfather. One apple is skin, flesh and core. A
triangle had three points, but is one shape. One basketball is a leather exterior,
an inner tube and air. A human being is triune: one person with a body, soul and
spirit.
Because of Adam and Eve’s disobedient choices, their
spirit died. They still had a body and soul, but they carried around a dead
spirit within them. Now, we are all born with a dead spirit within us. Our soul
– our mind, will and emotions – finds sustenance and joy in this life; but
something is always missing. Our spirit is dead and it wants to be reborn.
The only way for our spirit to be Born Again is to end our
willful lifestyle and to totally surrender our body and soul to Jesus Christ (John 3:1-21). Many
times people come to God to receive His benefits, especially during emotional
and/or physical crisis in our life. We are grateful to Him for His solace and
provision and we attempt to serve Him. We get religious for a while.
Eventually, when we recover from our crisis, we decide we
are strong enough on our own and we do not need God anymore. What happened at
this time is that our soul reached out to God. We embraced Him with our whole
mind, will and emotions. We looked to Him as a benevolent Father and we took
advantage of His generosity, mercy and grace.
However, our spirit was still dead in sin. That dead
spirit, like a millstone around our neck (Matthew 18:6), drug us back down into Satan’s
domain, and he made sure that we felt secure and settled in our new place in
society.
Conversely, if we ever completely fall upon the Rock of
Christ (Matthew 21:44;
Psalm 18:2), we no longer live for our self, but for the glory and honor
of our King. We receive all of the rights and privileges of a King’s kid; and
we serve in God’s army to win the lost and to help to save them from a
destructive, degenerate life.
Prayer:
Father God, unless we totally embrace You and Your Word, we will never find the total peace we seek or the fulfillment we desire on this earth. Our eternal destination does not depend on our goodness or corruptness, but on our belief or unbelief. Remind us that if we choose not to believe in and surrender totally to You, we condemn our self to a mediocre life on earth and the flames of hell for eternity (John 3:18).
Father God, unless we totally embrace You and Your Word, we will never find the total peace we seek or the fulfillment we desire on this earth. Our eternal destination does not depend on our goodness or corruptness, but on our belief or unbelief. Remind us that if we choose not to believe in and surrender totally to You, we condemn our self to a mediocre life on earth and the flames of hell for eternity (John 3:18).
Thought for the Day:
Unless you completely accept all of the Bible’s Words,
God’s gift to us, as the only Truth in life, you will be constantly pulled by
other ideologies, with which Satan floods the earth.
