Thoughts On Christian Sanctity

From: Kristen

 

As Paul once wrote “Oh, what a wretched man that I am!” I can follow suit and say “Oh what a wretched woman I am!” We fall so short of being like Christ. But should we give up? God forbid. My goal is to draw closer to Him every single day. I want to be like Jesus; to serve Him, to worship Him, to relfect Him and to abide with Him.

The following quote inspired me greatly when I read it! Among humbling me and forcing me to take a good look at what I really am, it encouraged me and it drives me to pusue Christ with more zeal and passion than ever before. This quote is “frame-worthy” to me. That’s a phrase I like to use when I have found something that I dearly love and want to set it up as a reminder. The following is my desire, my ultimate goal, and my aim that I press toward. It’s my life’s goal. And I hope this is your goal as well. 

 

“To be like Christ. To displace self from the inner throne, and to enthrone Him; to make not the slightest compromise with the smallest sin. We aim at nothing less than to walk with God all day long, to abide every hour in Christ and He and His words in us, to love God with all the heart and our neighbor as ourselves….It is possible to cast every care on Him daily, and to be at peace amidst pressure, to see the will of God in everything, to put away all bitterness and clamor and evil speaking, daily and hourly. It is possible by unreserved resort to divine power under divine conditions to become strongest through and through at our weakest point.”

 

– Unknown

Being a Block.

From: Grant

Recently my beautiful fiance and I were reading together in Ephesians. We read a passage that I had read many times but this time it had a new meaning to me. Ephesians 2:19 & 20 reads:  “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.”

When we read this it smacked me like a pallet of bricks. The church is built upon great Christians (of course the strong and weak alike are all built upon Christ and without Him would have nothing); those that stood out, that went the extra distance for Jesus, that have forsaken everything for Him. The foundation of the modern day Church is built, thanks to Christ, upon the apostles and prophets of old. This is how I want to be. I fall way short of a Paul or Enoch but what a great goal! What an awesome oppurtunity to serve Christ like this. When we are reigning in the millennium with Christ, ruling with him, will the children and adults alike open the books of old and read our names of how we strived to serve Christ in a miraculous way? How great Kristen’s faith was and how it was accounted unto her for righteousness or How Grant slew 1,000 demons with the words of God. Or maybe How Melody was bold enough to lead thousands to Christ in the slums of Iran.

What will be written of you centuries from now? Will there be nothing? Will you slide into Gods kingdom by receiving Christ as your Lord and Savior but then STOP and go no further? Will you gain no crowns to cast at the feet of our Marvelous Savior? Will you hide? Will your name be numbered among the countless others that never obeyed Christ? Or will you be named among the greats? Among Abraham, Peter, Noah and the few others that decided to live a selfless, Christfilled life?

I pray that the Lord will give anyone who has this desire, as well as myself, the boldness and ability to live this type of life. Maybe it wont happen overnight for you but can’t we take it a step at a time, starting with being obedient to what God you to do right now?