What you do makes a difference

What you do makes a difference in your relationship with God. In Christ, your union with God cannot improve. And it cannot decline. It’s based on God. But your communion with God can improve, and it can decline. It’s based on you. God’s love for you cannot increase or decrease. But your experience of God’s love for you can increase or decrease.

Pursuing obedience, resisting temptation, keeping a short account with sin, forgiving others, suffering well, prayer, Bible study, corporate worship, taking the Lord’s Supper, and attending church can improve your communion with God. You can’t change the nature of your relationship with God, but what you do makes a real difference in your experience of this relationship. You can nurture the relationship, or neglect it. You can find joy in God, or look for joy in the fleeting pleasures and empty treasures of this world. What you do makes a difference.

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Feed Your Peace

The world says grab all you can, can all you grab, sit on the can, and poison the rest. But that’s the selfish fuel for anger, anxiety, fear, and frustration. And it will boil over in your life. In other words, it’s the recipe for rage.

Insecurity makes you anxious. Pride makes you angry. Discontent makes you frustrated. And fear makes you feel like you’ll never be truly happy. And so, you rage.

What’s the answer? Feed your peace. It starts on your inside, and flows to your outside. Find your security in who Jesus is. Leave your pride at the foot of the cross. Be content knowing that God is working everything for your good. And rejoice that your eternity will be nothing but happy, forever.

James 3:18 says peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness. In other words, peace-loving lifestyles lead to fields of righteous choices. Instead of raging emotions. Feed your peace.

 

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Mountain Moving Faith

People talk about having the kind of faith that can move mountains. But does that mean you can just remove any and all obstacles in your life? Well, in Matthew 21:21, Jesus said that if you have faith and do not doubt, even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. So why isn’t this happening? Because sometimes we are doubting.

It’s not doubting God can move the mountain. It’s looking at the wrong mountain. You see, 1 Corinthians 13:2 says if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And Galatians 5:6 says the only thing that matters is faith working through love. So, you might have great faith, but if love isn’t growing in your heart, your faith isn’t going to move that mountain. Until you realize that the mountain that needs moving is YOU.

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