Speaking Life or Death?

What are you saying these day?

Proverbs 18:21 ESV     

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits."

How often do we think before we speak?  Do we open our mouths

first and just let whatever comes to the for front of our minds pass through our lips?  All to often this is the case.  Many of us, myself at the top of the list, lack self control because of the environment we allow ourselves to be influenced by.  We as follows of Christ have become what scripture warns us about, lukewarm.  We are so far removed from the FIRE of the the Holy Spirit and been there so long we don't even know that we are cold.  While we have existed for so long in the cold place of our relationship with God, we no long know who He is or even who we are as a Christian.  Once again I say to myself and to you who read this, let us RUN back to God!  Back to the flame of His love and Holiness.  The Church has become a comfortable place where you can't see the difference between us and the world.  We have allowed ourselves, myself, a place where we have excepted that this is the way life should be.  We must begin to speak life to ourselves and to those around us.  Never forgetting the Grace afforded to us as we speak to others.  Proverbs 16:24(ESV)²⁴ Gracious words are like a honeycomb,sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Now as we move closer to the flame getting deeper and deeper into the center of  the flame remember God is Holy and He calls us to be Holy.  Not that we are perfect but we are being made perfect as we draw closer to Him.  As we draw closer to him our speech, our talk, our conversations become more in line with His.  Not religious talk, real relationship talk.  Ephesians 4:29(ESV) ²⁹ Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let's get back to the place of our first love and be passionate for Him once again.  Build yourself up and other in Christ!

Daily Transformed in His image.

                                                             

"What does it mean that man is made in the image of God?"

On the last day of creation, God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness" Genesis 1:26 Genesis 2:7.  Thus, He finished His work with a "personal touch."  God formed man from the dust and gave him life by sharing His own breath.  Accordingly, man is unique among all God's creations, having both a material body and an immaterial soul/spirit.  Having the “image” or “likeness” of God means, in the simplest terms, that we were made to resemble God. Adam did not resemble God in the sense of God’s having flesh and blood. Scripture says that “God is spirit” (John 4:24) and therefore exists without a body. However, Adam’s body did mirror the life of God insofar as it was created in perfect health and was not subject to death. 

The image of God refers to the immaterial part of man. It sets man apart from the animal world, fits him for the dominion God intended him to have over the earth (Genesis 1:28), and enables him to commune with his Maker. It is a likeness mentally, morally, and socially.Part of being made in God’s image is that Adam had the capacity to make free choices. Although he was given a righteous nature, Adam made an evil choice to rebel against his Creator. In so doing, Adam marred the image of God within himself, and he passed that damaged likeness on to all his descendants (Romans 5:12). Today, we still bear the image of God (James 3:9), but we also bear the scars of sin. Mentally, morally, socially, and physically, we show the effects of sin.

The good news is that when God redeems an individual, He begins to restore the original image of God, creating a “new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). That redemption is only available by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior from the sin that separates us from God (Ephesians 2:8-9). Through Christ, we are made new creations in the likeness of God (2 Corinthians 5:17).

So even this Pastor with all my flaws (pic above) is being made and transformed daily into the image of my Saviour Jesus.  Daily being renewed and transformed into His likeness.  Join me today and every day in the transformation process of becoming more like HIM!!!