My Days with Christ Jesus

Day 171

June 20, 2015
"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" -Mark 8:36 ESV

Most of our decisions are deeply influenced by the world. We let other people decide for us, or we are influenced by what we see in the world and end up losing our faith. Gaining the world and losing God in the process.
We are unable to step up because we are afraid if we might fail like most people are in this world...or we either step up but for a wrong intention because of fame, money, power and other worldly desire, which is in any way an insult to God because you have glorified yourself and had
disregarded Him.
Can we still gain God and be profitable in this life?
Yes, i believe we can. God owns the true riches of this world. He owns the world.
"For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. And the Lord was with him; and he prospered withersoever he went forth." -2 Kings 18:6-7
What to do? Seek and clave unto God and do His will and command.

Also Christians are to step up in life for God's greater glory. Getting out from our comfort zone and testing the water is our way of manifesting our faith for the world to see God, the God whom we are serving.
Being scared is one of the signs we will experience, fear of the future... and that spirit of fear aims to bring us down and to not experience God's abundant life for us... fear is of the enemy. A weapon formed against you for us not to listen to God, We are aware of God's plan in our lives in Jeremiah 29:11 but satan is on the move to steal, kill and destroy your whole life.
Fear and faith can go together. For the former destroys and the latter builds up. You need to pick one.
To be able to hear God requires faith, for how can you recognize His voice if you don't believe in Him and know Him. Faith comes from hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17).
Gaining the world means to forfeit one's soul. To deny God and His existence you can have the world and God at the same time,
'No one can serve two master, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despite the other. You can't serve God and mammon.' -Matthew 6:24
Losing one soul means going to hell, you can never say you have gain- knowing you're going to hell. What's to gain in hell?!

Satan always offer things in an easy way, but the end result will be million times hard and unbearable, eternal suffering... its like iching on a rotten cake. The devils deals like that after all he is a deceiver nice looking on the outside for the exchange of our soul. While God's offer is a bittersweet. As a christian we were told by Jesus Christ that life on earth won't be trouble-free. There will be persecution as He, Himself has experienced it but He promised to be with us through it all... and not just that He intends to carry us thru victory... in the same way He defeated death, He will fight for all our daily struggles only and if only we will trust Him.

To be prosperous in this life today, we don't need to gain the world because true riches is in God alone and the one thing we need to gain is Christ and the rest we must consider loss and vain.
'And my God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.' -Philippians 4:19
And the only thing we need to do is seek Him first above all and everything else will be added unto you (Matthew 6:33)
To God be the glory!