Instructions for Christian LivingG

Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!

  People should be able to see a difference between Christians and non-Christians because of the way Christians live.  We are to live full of light (5:8).  Paul told the Ephesians to leave behind the old life of sin, since they were followers of Christ.  Living the Christian life is a process although we have a new nature, we don't automatically think all good thoughts and express all right attitudes when we become new people in Christ.   So what do we do?

   We keep listening to God, we will be changing all the time.  If you will look back over the last year and see the changes you have made.  If you see no changes, where in does the problem lie?  Change may be gradual, but it is there.  Our old way of life , problems, attitude, etc. are the past, tread not backwards but continue forward in Christ.

    Our daily thoughts should be Christ oriented and we need to read the Bible daily.  But I don't have time.  THAT IS HOG WASH!  You have time to read the paper, a book, smoke, watch T.V., or whatever.  You just DON'T MAKE TIME!  Let not time be an excuse!!  Here are the verses, please read!!!  Ephesians 4:17-24

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. ¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
²⁰ That, however, is not the way of life you learned ²¹ when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. ²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ²³ to be made new in the attitude of your minds; ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

   For more verses you can go to:  Romans 1:21, 24; 6:6; 12:2 Eph 2:2   Col 3:5, 8-9, 10; James 1:21 or 2 Cor 5:17.

   May your day be one blessed with God's blessings and may you be content you are safe in His protection.  Love you all.
  In Christ's Love and Grace
     Johnny