By: Shwanda Jones
"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence."
1 Corinthians 1:27-29
Are you in the same place now that you were last year?
Are you still dealing with the same ole defeats? same ole weaknesses? same ole attitudes? same ole emotions?
Do you still not speak to everyone at church?
Do you still got Child Church Syndrome where if the preacher isn't finished by a certain time, you're ancy or "retago"?
Do you find yourself praying the same ole prayer?
…you my friend, my brother and my sister…are slipping.
I chose the above scripture from a Daily Verse website I often visit and I thought it be appropriate, especially for young people. It's so funny because we claim and profess to be the individual's that are "most on fire" for God and we love to shout, praise, dance and cry, which is fine; spiritual cleansing and praise is much needed, worshiping God is a must; however, we are still slipping and being trapped up by the same things after we're done. We go to church and lay out in the floor then we leave, but next week, we're laying out for the same thing. (I'm talking to myself too) When are we going to start to hold ourselves accountable? When are we going to realize the reason we're not being fruitful is because we're still in the same state of mind as we were when we were in the flesh? We use the saying, "we all fall short" but what happened to "God created man in His own image"? We still have nasty attitudes, we're still gossiping, we're still selfish, always putting our own agenda first, we still wanna fit into the world…it's okay if we let the N-word slip or if we're around unsaved friends and they're being heathens and we just gone and conform? Right? no. And we wonder why we're not at the next level. *inserts humility*
What I'm saying is, either you're in or you're out. Being saved is fun and should be, but nobody said it was a playground…there's a time and place for everything. We have to not only profess salvation but we have to live it, through and through. If we start letting little mentalities slip through, little weaknesses, little quirks, soon or later the enemy is going to be sitting right beside us, playing video games with our life. We cannot slip and allow the enemy to come in and make us stagnant or take us back to where we came from. We have to change thoroughly. Not just by going to church, reading the Bible here and there, yes we must do all those things but we have to check our hearts too and make sure they are right and especially our attitudes, as well as increase our prayer life. We have to pray for change and deliverance from our weaknesses. Before we can even sin we have to ask for forgiveness, instant conviction. Some of us are so used to our fleshly ways (even if they're not considered sins) that we don't even recognize they're wrong or hindering us. How are we going to be Christians and we still don't treat everybody the same or only deal with people when we want to? That isn't God-like. What if God only dealt with us when He wanted to? What if God caught attitudes with us? What if God had a time limit on our prayers?
Stop letting little things slip before you find yourself back to where you started. Don't let the enemy in with small mistakes that can be corrected through prayer, worship, reading and allowing God to change us, inside and out. Stop slipping…
Peace & Blessings everyone,
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