Are You Walking With God

Are You Walking With God “But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. No one who is born of God will continue to sin.” 1st John 3:5-9. Are you walking each day with God in your life? Better still, let me rephrase it and ask you, if God is walking with you? There is a difference, as the Bible tells us that God will not be with you if you sin, as He does not condone sin. When you asked Jesus into your heart, he forgave you of all your past sins, and if He abides there, there cannot be any sin in your heart. God will not live in a heart where sin, Satan and evil is present. "We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him." 1st John 5:18. I believe that there are many people who don't understand the sacrifice that Jesus made for us, the sacrifice He made in suffering and dying on the cross, and all the agony and pain that He bore, just so that we could be saved and our sins could be forgiven. Do you think for a moment that Jesus would have suffered and died in this manner to forgive our sins, and then allow us to continue to sin daily. What would be the purpose of all His sacrifice, if we continue to lie, cheat, steal, curse, commit adultery and all the other sins. Do you think Jesus would have died, and allowed us loopholes or escape hatches, where we could continue to go on sinning sometime. There are no "what if's", no "sometimes", or any other conditions which allow us to continue to sin. What has changed in our lives, if we continue to sin after we asked Jesus to save us? What would have been the purpose of Jesus dying for us, and still allowing us to continue to sin? All the scriptures tell us when we accept Jesus as our Savior, that our lives are to be new, we are to be transformed, and we are to be changed into a new creation. This does not mean that we are just changed a little bit, maybe 50% better, or even 85% better, and that we still obey God 50% of the time, or 85% of the time, and Satan the other 50% of the time or the other 15% of the time. There is no part time Christian, as either we follow God or we don't. We can't obey God in the morning and Satan in the afternoon. God commands us to obey Him 100% of the time, and there is no room for us to obey Satan any of the time. There is no wiggle room for us to obey Satan some, and God some. We either have to choose to obey God, or to obey Satan. We can have only one master, and we have to choose between God and Satan. This is what Jesus told us, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48 These are some pretty high standards that Jesus gave us, and if you are thinking that you have been doing ok, and have been good most of the time, this may not be good enough to get you to heaven. When the Bible tells you that "no one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him" this is a powerful statement, and should make you think, is God walking with me, as I am still committing sins daily. You have the choice to submit yourself to God and follow His commands and flee from sin, or you can follow the devil. If you choose to resist the devil, he will flee from you, or if you choose God He will come near to you. It tells you to purify your hearts and wash your hands of your sins. However, you have to make the choice to either follow God or Satan. You are the only one that can eradicate sin from your life, or the only one that can keep it in your heart. God is careful who he walks with. He will not walk with the sinner or the ungodly, nor with those who profess to know him, but deny Him in their actions. To escape God's wrath, and to be in the Rapture, you must walk with God. There is no other path He'll walk on than the Straight and Narrow path that His Son paved with His righteousness and holiness. Ask God into your heart today, let Him change your life, and give you an eternal life in Heaven. Robert W. Brock My Daily Devotional Volume Seven