It constantly amazes me how many people, once they come to God become very passive and almost timid.
Before we came to Christ we were loud and in your face bold. If we didn’t like something we let folks know. If someone didn’t like the things we did, it was their problem and not ours.
And now we are living in Christ and we somehow seem to have had our spine removed from us. There is something totally baffling about this.
Are we not children of the most high? Isn’t our father, God Almighty?
Ok I get that we are new creatures and that old things are passed away. And that we need to be more Christ like. But Christ wasn’t a wimp. He was humble and loving and forgiving but he stood his ground. He did not let what the world had to say about him hinder him, but he pressed forward doing the work of his father no matter what the cost. He was mocked, taunted, talked about and killed.
This being the case, then why do we worry about what the ungodly have to say or think of us when we are doing what is right in God’s eyes. Didn’t God tell us not to be surprised when this happened? Why do we let ourselves be swayed by what someone might say if we do or do not do something. Are we so unstable as to lose the victory when murmuring lips start to complain? Why do we become mealy mouth Christians?
We are children of the King of Kings. What do we fear? Man’s word, their disapproval? I think not. We are called to be bold in Christ. We have an obligation to take a stand for the one who saved us and set us free.
Yes we are accountable to one another. We are called to encourage the brethren. But we are not to be pleasers of men. This is not always easy. But we are no longer controlled by the flesh or emotions but by the blood of Jesus who will strengthen us to do his will.
We are not servants of this world or the emotional games that they try to play. We need to grow in the knowledge of who we are in Christ. We are more than conquerors. If God gave us power over serpents and scorpions and over ALL the power of the enemy. Then we surely have the power to let the words of this world roll off our backs.
We are children of the living God. We are joint heirs with Christ. KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
