3. “Don’t corner anything meaner than you”
I remember about nine years ago when our 1,800 pound bull
used my dad as a door knob to get out of the barn. The bull wanted out through the gate and used
dad to open it. Fortunately dad was
okay. We need to realize that when we mess
with sin which is something bigger, stronger and meaner than we are then we are
asking for trouble. We have no way of
overpowering sin on our own. Sin can
walk right over us and leave us in a mess.
The beautiful thing about sin is that we do not have to face it alone
and God is bigger than any sin we face.
God wants us to reach out to Him before the sin gets to us so that He
can help strengthen us against the temptation and help us face it. God hates sin as much as sin hates us!
4. “Always drink upstream from the herd”
This one needs no explanation! The easiest way for us to apply this to our
spiritual life is with one word, Sanctification. We, as God’s people, are called to be set
apart, different, and holy. The Bible
even tells us that it is God’s will that we be sanctified. We must be living a life that day in and day
out points others to Christ. We cannot
leave Christ in the car when we go to work, or to school, or to play. As Christians everything we do needs to make
others look at us and see that we are not like everyone else, that there is
something different, that we are set apart. God tells us in 1 Thessalonians 4:3 that His will for our lives is our sanctification. So we have to take this continual process of becoming like Christ very seriously.
I hope you can take these words of wisdom and apply them to
your spiritual life to help you grow.
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