Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"The Old Has to Go"


The bottom line is, "God is Love" and he loves you and her equally and completely.  "God is Life" and the originator of all true  relations, he is divine Mind.  

Think on this scripture!

               "The Old Has to Go

And so I insist-and God backs me up on this- that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd.  They've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God but with reality itself.   They can't think straight anymore.  Feeling  no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.  

But that's no life for you.  You learned Christ!  My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him,  been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus.  Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything--and I do mean everything--connected with the old way of life has to go.  It's rotten through and through.  Get rid of it!  And then take on an entirely new way of life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reporduces his character in you.

What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense.  Tell your neighbor the truth.  In Christ's body we're all connected to each other, after all.   When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself."  

Ephesians 4  The Message

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