March 14, 2013 - Running Errands

Good morning - the weekend is on the way with warmer temps. I will be sitting outside in the sun in a few, short days. I wanted to blog this morning by giving a comment on a passage of scripture as we drink coffee together. (wink) Here's the read: Romans 6:12-18 (MSG) 12-14 That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don’t give it the time of day. Don’t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you’ve been raised from the dead!—into God’s way of doing things. Sin can’t tell you how to live. After all, you’re not living under that old tyranny any longer. You’re living in the freedom of God. What Is True Freedom? 15-18 So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom! Me again: Freedom is our God-mandate, but freedom doesn't mean we live, eat, and act in any manner that we choose. I really felt the Lord highlight this morning that we fight hard to walk in freedom in our health. Amen? (how many know sometimes it appears to be an UPHILL battle?) But often, we "peak" out from the closed casket door (the picture God gave me) and wink at our old ways of eating because we're free. Does that make sense? Once we have placed our old eating habits in the death box, we are free to live as healthy people. YES, WE ARE! BUT SOMETIMES, those old eating habits try to get us to open the casket lid and "give a peak" at their gestures. I love the red, highlighted section above - don't peak, don't listen, and don't run errands. Leave the casket containing your old, unhealthy ways of living CLOSED! Praying my visual helps you today. Remember, we walk in freedom because the lid stays SHUT! PK