So Yesterday (Sunday) was the first day in 4 years that I
did not do any type of work for my company on Sunday, I have to say it has been like ……….. a new type of freedom.
I woke this morning thinking what could I do today? How about nothing. So I got up and got in the word. It was actually a struggle. Not sure why it just was. I am glad I pressed in. It is so easy sometimes to just let the
attitude or the world get in the way of the Lord.
I have noticed over the last couple of days that I have felt
the lust trying to creep in and I said no!
This always seems to creep in during my prep for Quest which started
today. I am a son and that is a fact
and I will walk as a son. My name is
Kevin and the spirit of the Lord is upon me!
My devotion took me
to Romans 12 but the huge word came to me in the last scripture of chapter 13 .
Romans 13:14
By being fully clothed in Christ makes it impossible for the flesh to
even imagine to find any further expression or fulfillment in lust. Jesus is
Lord of your life. (1enduo, fully immersed in the consciousness of the
Christ-life, as defining you.) So I am reading this over and over where
it says “Christ makes it impossible ………..”
this so resonates in my spirit.
Jesus is Lord of my life!
As I go back and read
starting with verse 13:9
13:9
Love makes it impossible for you to commit adultery, or to kill someone,
or to steal from someone, speak evil of anyone, or to covet anything that
belongs to someone else. Your only option is to esteem a fellow human with
equal value to yourself.
13:10 Everything love does is to the advantage of
another; therefore, love is the most complete expression of what the law
requires.
13:11 You must understand the urgency and context
of time; it is most certainly now the hour to wake up at once out of the
hypnotic state of slumber and unbelief. Salvation has come.
13:12 It was night for long enough; the day has
arrived. Cease immediately with any action associated with the darkness of
ignorance. Clothe yourself in the radiance of light as a soldier would wear his
full weaponry. (The night is far spent, 1prokopto, as a smith forges a piece of
metal until he has hammered it into its maximum length.)
13:13 Our lives exhibit the kind of conduct
consistent with the day, in contrast to the 1parade of the night of intoxicated
licentiousness and lust, with all the quarrels and jealousy it ignites. (The
word, 1komos, refers to a nocturnal and riotous procession of half drunken and
frolicsome fellows who after supper parade through the streets with torches and
music in honor of Bacchus or some other deity, and sing and play before houses
of male and female friends; hence used generally to describe feasts and
drinking parties that are protracted late into the night and indulge in
revelry.)
I find it interesting
that I had to hear verse 14 before 9-13 spoke to me
It is like a recipe for freedom.
Then you go back to Romans chapter 12 therefore I urge you brothers in view of
God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living
sacrifice Holy and pleasing to God. That
would be you Spiritual act of Worship
So the question today is ………. are you fully clothed?
