Tuesday April 18th, 2023
Meditate on: 2 Corinthians 6:17 NLT
« Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the LORD. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. »
Read: Romans 12:1-2 (NLT
1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Understand
Consecration to Christ means that you are completely immersed in Him.
True consecration is really lacking these days.
Many people are holding on to Jesus with one hand and the world with the other.
How do you explain a Christian who claims to have given their life to Christ but consults a witch doctor over a negative situation that has lingered for long?
A consecrated individual may go through a lot of sufferings for the Lord, but they will count it all joy as long as God is still with them.
Paul was so consecrated that even when God warned him about being apprehended if he went to preach to the Jews, he still went (Acts 21:11). He was so consecrated that he declared publicly in Galatians 2:20 NLT:
« My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. »
I once saw someone on a Television saying saying that, in the past, the only thing Christians cared about was being used of God, but these days, people are more interested in how they can use God.
Many Christian sisters compromise their faith because they want to get married; many wear revealing clothes to attract men, some attend ungodly gatherings with the hope of finding their future spouse there, while some even have sex before marriage so as not to lose the man.
There was this female missionary in a hostile community who was abducted and handcuffed early on her wedding day. Instead of crying, she smiled, kissed the handcuffs and said Lord, I didn’t know I was so special that You didn’t want to share me with anyone else. How beautiful is Your wedding ring to me!
She was so consecrated that instead of seeing a failed wedding ceremony, she saw the handcuffs as a ring, symbolic of her divine union with Christ.
Are you truly consecrated to Christ?
Application: Are you genuinely consecrated unto the Lord? Do you yearn only for His will to be done? Are you willing to go through sufferings for His name’s sake?
Author: Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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