DECEPTIVE COMFORT

       A great many Christians have embraced the philosophy of “dancing with Jesus in a field of grace” in order to justify a worldly and weak lifestyle that allows them to live far beneath the discipline required of a true follower of Christ.  Would we not be better served, and would not Jesus be more perfectly presented to the world, if, rather than

wallowing in grace, we would lie prostrate before our Father God in radical prayer and with much importunity, beseeching Him to be infused with the power of His Spirit in order to live a lifestyle that more perfectly aligns itself with His majesty?

Paul wrote to Timothy to “remember those things that you have heard and those that you have heard them of.”  But today we not only easily forget what we have been taught, but, in many cases, criticize and ridicule those that have endeavored to teach us the truths of God.  Having itching ears, we heap to ourselves teachers that will give us permission to live far beneath the precepts of God, or, in come cases, in outright sin.

There is a clear and certain sound returning to the body of Christ that proceeds from the throne room of God Himself.  But, having embraced profane babblings and cunningly devised fables, many have deafened their ears to the truth of God!  Not wanting to lay down their lives for Christ’s sake, they have rejected the high calling of Christ and selected a lifestyle of deceptive comfort.  But the voice of God will not be hushed and the plan of God will not be thwarted!  There will always be those that desire Him, and hear Him, and answer His calling.  Let us seek to be conformed to the image of Christ, for the bride must be worthy of the Groom!

Ronnie Coleman

Feb 19, 2013