Are we doers of the Word?

 To be a child of GOD looks like something.  I know a lot of people, myself included who used to say "I have always been a Christian".  But this statement is simply not true if your behaviour was not as a child of GOD's should be.

In other words, if you were jealous, a liar, a gossip, if partied until the small hours of the morning telling unbecoming jokes and drinking copious amounts of alcohol, (and believe me, here I am talking for myself), then truthfully, were you a true child of GOD?

The answer is no.

Once you truly accept Jesus as your Lord and your Redeemer, the Holy Spirit comes to live in you, and you start to change.  A little at first, then it picks up speed.  No longer do you desire to party or to swear or to be a gossip or to be jealous.  No longer do you desire the things of this earth.  They do grow strangely dim.  

And as the Holy Spirit fills you, more and more you detest a lying tongue.  Even your own.  More and more you want to tell the truth only.  More and more you do not want to hear detestable language, it starts to offend you more and more. 

These are the true signs of being a born-again believer.  Suddenly you yearn to know GOD more.  Suddenly you would rather read your Bible than a novel.  No longer can you watch adult movies on TV - they are truly offensive.

Another thing happens, slowly by surely, your friends you once thought would stand by you through thick and thin, disappear.  Your new friends are more like Jesus and you enjoy being with them so much more.  

These are the signs that you are being refined by GOD.

And that is what Jesus was saying to His disciples.  Do not do what they are doing, (the pharisees and the sadducees).  They are like white-washed tombs.  Beautiful on the outside and dead on the inside. 

Which I definitely was for many years. 

So today, if you are still living "of this world" commit to Jesus.  Accept Jesus, repent and turn away from your old life.  Ask GOD to fill you with HIS Holy Spirit and prepare to be astounded when GOD starts working in your life.  I am amazed, each and every day as I grow to know GOD and to love HIM more and more.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that I have Jesus as my Redeemer.  FATHER fill me anew with YOUR Holy Spirit that I may thirst to know YOU more each day.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously GOD blessed today!