What will be revealed to us today?

Pray:  oh my Father, How are you this morning?  I slept fairly well last night...and I sure pray that everyone else in this household did as well....you know God I really would like some extra special jot of wisdom....I have a few little things to handle and I would really appreciate it if you would take the wheel on them.  I am not going to spell them out here on this page, but you know my thoughts, so you know the issues at hand.    But right now Father if you would guide my thoughts and fingers, and please jump right in and speak thru me, should you so desire, as we explore these few verses from your Holy Word.  Please give to those of reading your words this day an extra measure of understanding that we might be able to expound on these words with others that we might come into contact on this very day.  Thank you Father and I love you Lord, Amen and Amen.

Romans 6: 3-10

3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin ; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.       

 Okay just a little rabbit trail.  Do you know how hard the evil one just tried to throw a monkey wrench into this blog…so what we have here must be some pretty powerful words… So first of all thank you Daddy for helping us to prevail!  I was on my Ipad and that wasn’t allowing me to continue, I think because of the way I had copy and pasted the Bible verse…but any way we had a bit of a bollix! So here we are again, back on track!  And again thank you Father!

So…..what does this verse say to us….it says everything, everything that is, in the beginning, of a new Christian’s life all that is necessary to begin our walk with Christ.  Now mind you not all the instructions are here but this is the beginning!

When we ask Christ to come into our lives, into our hearts, we are to die to ourselves.  (Just as I died on the cross for each and every one of you.)  We are to give up our worldly and fleshly desires and take up the desires that Christ and the Holy Spirit put onto our hearts and hence our minds.  Do you see how amazingly simple the path to eternal life actually is?  But remember, there will definitely be difficulties ahead.  The evil one doesn’t like to loses, so he will make trouble.  Just go to the Father, and He will help you.  You can also go to other Christians or your pastor. 

What do these verses mean to us?  Well I can’t speak to what they say to you, but to me they say, that even though I am so unworthy of what Christ did, I am willing to try to walk as He wants me to walk.  Because, since I have accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior, I owe to Him to try my best, and to do the things that I know that He wants me to do.  Does this mean I will never again make mistakes…absolutely not.  I do make mistakes, and I make them everyday.  But I think, I hope, I am making fewer today than I made last year at this time.  I particularly like verse 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,  We now live with Christ, because He is in us, and we can talk to Him whenever we want!  He is always, right there with us!  Even if you would rather He wasn’t…so keep that in mind.  Yay!

So how are we to apply this to our everyday lives?  Well, when you go to work today, will you work, or will you watch Netflix?  You know you will do a much better job, at your job, if you keep your entire mind on your job.  A long time ago I had a boss, who was really quite strict,  and she was the accounting department supervisor, and she was a great boss, I might add, anyway, one day she said to me, Kirsten, are you spending time thinking (mind you just thinking) about things other than just your work?  Well I was…and she said leave those things at the door when you arrive at work…they do not belong in here!  And keep your mind focused.  That was some very good advice.  So I ask again, how will you apply this verse to your life today, remember Christ gave EVERYTHING for us.  What can we do for HIM?