WE ARE CHRIST'S FRAGRANCE...

The Bible says we are the aroma (fragrance) of Christ. Let's spread that fragrance around!

2 Corinthians 2:15, : For we are to God the aroma of Christ, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.




Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Life is short...eternity is not....


Hi...
This life is Abba Father's gift to us.
He chose us even when we were in our mother's womb.
Let's live this life with eternity in view. Let's live this life spreading Christ's fragrance all around.
2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.
2 Corinthians 2:16 To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life.
Let's keep serving our Lord faithfully.
God wants us to be imitators of Christ and live a life pleasing to Him, tell others about His saving grace and intercede for all.
1 Timothy 2: 2"........that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time."
Our greatest commission of earth is...to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
ARE WE FAITHFUL TO OUR COMMISSION?
ARE WE HIS WITNESSES IN OUR HOMES, WORK PLACES, COMMUNITY AND TO PEOPLE ALL OVER?
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
WITNESSING BEGINS AT HOME.
Earthly accomplishments, riches , processions all are meaningless...(vanity)!  What this world offers us is empty, vain pleasures. So often we get carried by things of this world.
Satan also blinds our eyes to believe all we see and hear to be from God....and we too get fooled so....easily.
Let's give out best to the Kingdom work and people we love and interact with.
He(Satan) did that to Eve in the Garden of Eden he enticed her with his sweet words and he does that to us today.
Life without God can become meaningless. God has called us to be the light...in the dark world.
Even as the World gets filthier and filthier, God expects us to be Holier and Holier.

Revelation 22:11 Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy."
It's not easy to walk towards holiness but it's not impossible either for God will help us.
We can't follow God and the World at the same time.
We need to hold lightly to the things of this world and tightly to the things of the Kingdom.
If we get friendly with the world, we slowly start to love it, enjoy it's company and then end up being condemned with it.
That's why the Bible says...in
1 COR 15:33, Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."
 We are called to be "Fishers on men" for the Kingdom.!
So hold lightly to the things of this world and let's not look back at sin we left behind and our old neighbourhood.
Let's live like Kingdom people...
Be Blessed..
YSIC
Julia



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