After all, God’s saving kindness has appeared for the benefit of all people. It trains us to avoid ungodly lives filled with worldly desires so that we can live self-controlled, moral, and godly lives in this present world. At the same time we can expect what we hope for—the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He gave himself for us to set us free from every sin and to cleanse us so that we can be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good things. (Titus 2:11-14)
Here, grace is shown as the power that teaches, trains, disciplines, guides, and leads us. It does not force us. In other places, it is shown as counseling, comforting, encouraging, admonishing, guiding, convicting, rewarding, even restraining. It teaches us that we must deny immorality, exhorting us to give ourselves over to self-mastery, that is, to controlling ourselves. We must devote ourselves to integrity and loyalty to God right here and now, while expectantly and patiently looking forward to the return of Jesus Christ and the resurrection from the dead to glory.
It is such scriptures as this upon which the blocks of Spiritual truth are laid upon the foundation of Jesus Christ – One must read and meditate upon these words, asking Holy Spirit to birth them into our spirit-man.
For in the reading of these scriptures we are bombarding the deception of the world in regard to “self”, tearing down these lies and transforming them into Truth of the Kingdom.
The enemy has done much to infiltrate the church and her doctrines with worldly philosophies. As true disciples we must raise up the standard of God’s Word and battle against such heresies of individualism when confronted with them especially when they attempt to invade our own lives. The selfish mind set is for itself alone, whereas the Kingdom mind set is outward in nature, pointing away from ones self with a mindset of selfless service towards the Lord first and secondly towards our neighbor – trusting in faith that the Father shall meet all our needs.
For the truth is, when one has come to the cross of Christ having realized that He is our Messiah and acknowledging His Lordship in our lives we then surrender our rights unto Him. For we must reach out and grasp hold of the revelation, fully trusting that He is indeed the Good Shepherd whose only desire is for us to experience all that He has for us – the goodness of our God!
As well knowing that He alone is the King, who seeing that One of His servants lays down their life, their agenda, their dreams for the good of His Kingdom out of love, honor and praise for Him, graciously returns ones life back unto them with abundance.
Glory to God, for He has not left us empty handed on this road of servant-hood,. Rather He has granted unto us the very vehicle in which to arrive at the place of selfless servant-hood , “Grace”. For by the grace of our Lord we are ushered into the position to walk in the fullness of true servant-hood in the Kingdom. For His Grace is like nitrogen to the Spirit man, once it is deposited into our spirit, it ignites the very Flames of His passion towards God the Father in our hearts empowering us to walk Spirit first lives. Lives saturated in, transformed by, reflective of, and pouring out to all around us, the very Love of God the Father!
For indeed we serve and awesome God!
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