Tuesday 28 Dec 2010

Tuesday Reading: Galatians 5:16-17
 
Key Verse: Galatians 5:16
16  I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.

Devotion:
So much attention is given to some points in our walk with Christ that I thought I would start to look under the skin as it were to find out some of the things that we miss every day. The first point to look at is our walk with Christ itself. It is correct that He has given us freedom of choice and that we are the ones that have to chose Him to come into our lives but He already chose us in the beginning – that is why we have Christmas and Easter, because He already made the first choice and that choice was to love us! So when we say that we then have a choice it is a choice that we make for our own selves and not for God. His choice has already been made.

When we then say that we have made a choice to ask Him into our lives we are the ones acknowledging the fact that He has made that choice in the beginning – we are showing our first steps of faith in believing that He has done it all. But just because we have made that choice does not mean that we will leave all our earthly baggage behind. Yes God will show us the way and He will remove the lusts and desires that we had so that we can be free to make our choice to follow Him. But we still have that freedom of choice. That is where our sin nature kicks back because far too often we turn round and pick up the baggage that we were relieved of because we just don’t want to let go.

Letting go of our earthly lives and walking with God is not as easy as it seems unless we are going to place our trust in Christ always. As soon as we start to doubt or as soon as we look for our own support we then find that we pick up the baggage that should be left behind. We then start to falter because of the weight of that baggage and we even start to doubt further. Satan is the one who is encouraging us to turn back and pick up the baggage, Christ is the one encouraging us to fully trust in Him. We still have to make the choice – but the choice should be obvious!

Points to Ponder:
What earthly baggage do you hold on to?

What makes you doubt God’s support?