Taking on the New Spirit of Life

Verses:  Ephesians 4: 17-24

My thoughts about the verses:

How many of us want to say we are Christians yet live our old life?  We go to church on Sunday and we act like that we are the perfect Christian.  Yet, for the next 6 weeks we live outside the lines of a Christian.  In fact, the only people that know of our proclamation of Christianity are those that attend Church with us those days that we go.

Yet, the question comes is this truly the life that God wants Christians to live?  Are we not supposed to live our life the same every day of the week.  Putting on the new Spirit of God and walking into the world a new creation.  Then when people see us they know something is different in us.  They are willing to accept that God has changed our life.  This happens not because we say it but because we are living it.

Now you might be thinking does this mean I can’t have fun anymore?  The people that I know that are having the most fun out of life are Christians.  They have an inner peace and can enjoy life to its fullest.  Have you ever seen a Christian just walking around smiling when the world around them is falling apart?  This happens because they are not afraid of what happens here on Earth.  They are set and content that they will have a place of eternal life when they leave this life.

Christians need to take on the New Spirit and walk with their heads high.  God wants us to be a beacon of light to others.  We should be living our life in a way that others want to come to know our Risen Savor.  When you take on the New You Jesus lives within you and guides you through life in such a way as to allow others a chance to see Jesus in you.  Sometimes the greatest gift that we can give someone is a smile or an inspiration thought.

We need to put away our Old lives.  If we try to cling onto the old we are constantly living an internal battle.  Our Christian soul filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit is fighting with the old self.  We cannot live in contentment when we are fighting ourselves inside.  People will actually see this and will shun away from the thought of asking Jesus in their life.  How many of us would have come to know Christ as our Savior if the people we saw as Christians were not happy in their life? 

In this world of chaos there is hope.  We can be the hope for someone today.  By living as Jesus would desire us to live we are allowing God to work through us.  We are learning to understand that God isn’t against us.  Yet, when we are struggling with the old self it is our own conscience that is in battle.  Put down the Old self and walk in the New Spirit of God.

Prayer:

Holy God we thank you for your enduring love.  We thank you for giving us hope.  We thank you for giving us peace and salvation.  Help us today put away the old self and live with the New Spirit of our life.  In the name of the Resurrected Christ we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior?  Are you living within the New Spirit of life?  Are you still living in the old self?  How can you change your life so others can see Jesus everyday of your life?