Romans 14:7-9 “For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves. If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. Christ died and rose again for this very purpose – to be Lord of both the living and the dead.”
This is so hard for us to understand, we need to die to self as we accept Christ and live. It is so easy to think it is for (me) but we should become a group of servants thinking of others. What we like should be put on the back burner so we can help others experience the love of Christ which is truly amazing.
In chapter 15 verse 13 it says, “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
We need to open our hearts and live by the Spirit, working hard to live a life that resembles Christ’s. We learn more and can grow more when we open God’s word and ask Him to show us what to do. Then the Spirit will fill us more and more and we can live to honor God not ourselves. Then people can see that we are real and different. That servant heart is what plants the seeds and our maturity waters it and then God makes it grow and blossom into people being fully devoted followers of Christ. We need to fill ourselves with God’s word and prayer so we are always developing into the people God intended. Amen
This is so hard for us to understand, we need to die to self as we accept Christ and live. It is so easy to think it is for (me) but we should become a group of servants thinking of others. What we like should be put on the back burner so we can help others experience the love of Christ which is truly amazing.
In chapter 15 verse 13 it says, “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
We need to open our hearts and live by the Spirit, working hard to live a life that resembles Christ’s. We learn more and can grow more when we open God’s word and ask Him to show us what to do. Then the Spirit will fill us more and more and we can live to honor God not ourselves. Then people can see that we are real and different. That servant heart is what plants the seeds and our maturity waters it and then God makes it grow and blossom into people being fully devoted followers of Christ. We need to fill ourselves with God’s word and prayer so we are always developing into the people God intended. Amen
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