Walking In The Light

Good Morning Everyone,

I am sure as you listen to the television you will hear
how to eat healthy many times each day. We are bombarded
with information on what is good to eat and what is not.

I am reminded that what we put into our body as food
is fuel to make our body either run efficiently, or run
poorly. We make conscious decisions to eat wisely,
or eat poorly, and that decision to eat poorly corrupts
our bodies natural processes and often turns out very
harmful to us over the long run.

This is also very true for our spiritual life, whatever we
allow into our spirit, takes root and grows like a little
tree within us, spreading it's branches throughout
our spirit, and affecting our thinking, the friends we choose,
and the way we invest our lives. It also has a huge affect
on our spiritual life. Whatever we allow in our spirit builds
our spirit or tears it down. It is either healthy for us
or destructive.

I think that many of us forget this, even in our relationships.
Who we choose to be around changes us. We become
like them to fit in with them, and they become like us by
our influence. That being said, we then either become
corrupted by them, or better for knowing them.

The Bible tells us that light cannot have fellowship with darkness.

Paul said: "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), proving what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret" (Eph. 5:8-12).

So you see by this, that we are either in darkness or in light.
We either walk with God, or we walk with the world.
Jesus asked us to separate ourselves from the world and
it's way of thinking, to leave fleshly thoughts and desires behind
and seek God's light and truth.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;..." II Cor. 6:17)

It is very important for you to examine yourself often to see
if the people you are getting around, the shows you are watching,
the things you are reading, are leading you TO God or AWAY
from Him.

Do not think you can be friends with darkness and not have
that darkness invade your own spirit. Darkness always cast
a shadow, and when it invades light, darkness consumes the light.
We as Christians have to be vigilant not to allow that, and to rebuke
that which is not of God, and walk in His Light and His Teachings.

Jesus said: "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God" (Jn. 3:19-21).

This verse clearly shows us, that when the truth of Jesus comes
into our life, we walk out of the darkness BY CHOICE. We start
producing fruits of the spirit that show we are a child of God,
and walking in his light. We change, we transform.

That being said, pray for those who don't know Christ, be
a witness in what you SAY and what you DO. And love them
in the Lord, but you cannot fellowship with them, or grow close,
you must be their mentor spiritually, through prayer, and intercession,
and a burden for their soul. Just as someone felt burdened for yours.

Always remember:

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:1-2

I love you in Christ dear friends, enough to tell you the truth
from God's word, just as some dear people told me. And I want
all of us to walk with Christ, and be pleasing to Him, and
be His children. And have a burden for the lost souls that
do not yet know Him and pray for them daily. This is our
calling, for each of us. To live a life surrendered to Christ
and to follow the great commission Jesus spoke of in
telling everyone we meet the precious, life changing
gospel of Jesus Christ.

love
millie