Time to wake up!

I titled this post "Time to wake up" but last night I couldn't even fall asleep. I was thinking about how too many people use the world and today's culture as a standard to how we are to live. I was thinking  how many people look around and say it's excepted by culture. Well let me tell you there are a lot of things excepted in "culture" sex before marriage, drunkenness, doing drugs, divorce, and the list goes on. Since when does culture decide if something is right or wrong. This is not okay in my book.

Wake up people this is a wicked and evil world we live in. The Bible says in Romans 12: 2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will." Is this too hard for us to understand? Again I say wake up! Measure your standards upon God's perfect example. I want a life that is pleasing to God, not one where I go to church on Sunday and party all week long. I don't party I don't think that sounds like fun and besides I usually go to bed by 9:30. Lame I know but it's what I do.

Wake up because the world around you is going to fade and what we as Christians look toward is the Kingdom of Heaven. There will be a day, a glorious day when Christ will come to bring us home and He is coming for a spotless bride. Don't get your morals mixed up in the world's view. Don't be conformed to the world but transformed. Today is good Friday, the day we remember as the time when Christ was crucified on the cross for our sins and the sins of the world. Don't be sad and remorseful. Be glad and rejoice because we know the end of the story. Christ defeated death and rose from the dead. He is our savior and I will rejoice in these days and forevermore because I have been saved and washed clean by the blood of the Lamb, God's perfect Lamb. Christ is coming back are you ready?

A Holy Temple

Today in church I was thinking to myself about the words "Your body is a holy temple." I often just think this means staying away from sexual impurity, drugs, alcohol, the "bad things" of this world. Immediately I start to think that I don't have to worry about this because I don't do any of those "bad things." What about the clothes I wear and the things I look at. What about how my body looks physically (I mean this in a healthy way exercise and such.) What about the words I speak? What am I doing with my holy temple?

I want to live my life to the fullest I mean overflowing with God's love and kindness towards others. I know this is not possible by my own doing but only through God and His love and kindness that can show through me. God is love and I want to show that to people. I don't want to be looked upon as a super high church goer or an everything goes kinda girl. I want people to see the real me and understand that I am nothing without Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior.

What are people going to see when they look at you? Are they going to see a person so in love with God and ready to share that you are just glowing? Or will they see dirt and grime that the world as left you with. Let's try first to live a holy and pure life keeping in mind that our bodies are a holy temple and secondly to look at others with the eyes of Christ.

"If you take a look at me, You might see, All the wrong things I've ever done. There are things that I'm ashamed of, things that I  regret, things I would take back if I could. We are spotless in the eyes of Christ, Washed by the blood of the Lamb. We are spotless in the eyes of Christ washed clean."
Spotless - Jill Osterhout