As we prepare to enter another new year, are there some changes in your life you would like to make? Is there some emotional or other baggage you don't want to carry into the new year with you? Jesus was having a discussion with His disciples about dealing with sin and offenses. They struggled with having enough to overcome these things so they asked how to increase their faith, Jesus' response...Luke 17:6
“If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
The word "say" here means to, "shout out loud with conviction and authority", "to make a firm command". Jesus is telling us, if there is something in our lives we want to get out of our lives we must have enough conviction to believe it so completely in our hearts that we speak out loud with authority, saying we will not have this bitterness, unforgiveness, selfishness, lust, greed, whatever the baggage we are carrying, controlling us anymore.
We have to begin to accept personal responsibility for our sin, bad moods, areas of emotional baggage. We need to understand God's promises for our lives, His word for our lives and say "No more". Standing on His promises and taking our authority in Christ, daily, changes everything. We choose what offends, what sins we allow, what unforgiveness we bear. Jesus is telling us to speak against those things with conviction of heart, believing God's promises, His Word and they will be pulled out by the roots. The key is we must decide and we must do it.
Make the change this year. Be come the free person God wants you to be. Make the decision today to start the new year fresh.
1 comment:
So glad I can still read your encouraging word for the day without being on FB!
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