Moments with my First Love [UNDER REVISION]

MOMENT 27: Dying inside; Dying everyday

2 Corinthians 4:10-11 We face death everyday because of Jesus. Our bodies show what his death was like, so that his life also be seen in us.

The real worth of Christian life is not how you live for everyday but it is how you die everyday.

A life fully surrendered to Jesus Christ is not just about being a living Word of God but also about being dead to ourselves (our own sins and selfish desires) about the things that are against His Words.

Let's disect the passage!
A. We face death every day because of Jesus.

Jesus is the voice from within convicting you to die everyday. Not a literal death. But death in your sins. In everyday, He wants you to change for the better. He wants something bad on you to be trimmed off so that the fruit of the Spirit will grow and be seen in us!

Take for instance, God allows someone to pissed you off to test your patience —this is actually a form of FACING DEATH.

Will you allow impatience to continue live on you rather than to let the patience which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit to live in you?

God allows someone to hurt you by doing something towards you that you don't like the most. Will you allow your emotion and desire to take revenge continue living in you rather than the understanding and love of God live in you?

In order for the Spirit of God to live in you, you must first die to yourself.

Bare in mind: Every circumstance, decisions and people is your death field. God offers you to choose between life or death. And He wants you to choose LIFE.

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life...

Choosing life is choosing to do what the Spirit convicts you and killing your own earthly and selfish desires that tries hard to destroy you.

Whenever you choose life and choose to kill your selfish nature, the fruit of the Holy Spirit and the Life of Jesus and the Glory of God will be obviously seen in your life. No longer you will be seen in you, but Jesus.

The death of Jesus Christ is the completion of Life!

☑️ Crown of thorns: Death in your sinful mind and imaginations
☑️ Whip of Thorn in His body: Death to the lust of your body and other physical sins
☑️ Nails: Death to the power of close hands and other sinful hand activity
☑️ Insults and Judgments: Death to your sinful nature to insult and judge others
☑️ Cross: Death to all power of evil over you

Jesus did it all just to give life to you.
Do your part to be dead in your sins!

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Shalom!
To God be All the Glory! :)