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4 Signs You’re Living For Christ|| FOUR SIGNS YOU ARE LIVING FOR
CHRIST
By: lastdayschristians Date: April 21, 2013, 9:24 am
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Christians are people whose lives are suppose to be God-centered
instead of self-centered.
The Apostle Paul encouraged Christians to “count ourselves dead
to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus,” (Rom 6:11) while
Augustine confessed “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and
our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
It’s Christ who is the source of our joy, strength and purpose.
(Col 3:4) “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts
17:28)
So how do you know you’re living for Christ? Here are four signs
to help you:
1) You desire to read and study the Bible:
Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me Your paths; guide me in Your
truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in
You all day long. (Ps 25:4-5)
Reading and studying the Bible pleases God because it increases
our faith. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.” (Rom 10:17)
Reading and studying the Bible also pleases God because it
allows us to identify and avoid bad teaching about Him. “Watch
out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way
that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away
from them.” (Rom 16:17)
2) You desire to put the Bible’s teaching into practice:
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do
what it says. (Jam 1:22)
A famous prayer says “Father, let me not only love Your truth,
but live it.”
When we’re living God’s Word it pleases Him because it’s
evidence we’re walking with Him. “This is love: that we walk in
obedience to his commands.” (2 Jhn 1:6)
When we walk with the Lord He comforts us with a special love.
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff,
they comfort me (Ps 23:4)
We don’t look to do good works in order to be saved but because
we are already saved through Christ.
3) You’re searching your heart:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious
thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me
in the way everlasting. (Ps 139:23-24)
We please God when we search our hearts for sin because sin
hinders our relationship with Him.
What do we do when we find sin? “All have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God,” but we are “justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (Rom 3:23-24)
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
4) You build people up through your words:
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but
only what is helpful for building others up according to their
needs, that it may benefit those who listen. (Eph 4:29)
God is pleased when we build people up instead of tearing them
down. We represent the living God to a dying world and our words
should reflect that. Our words should be filled with hope,
peace, encouragment and the good news of salvation through
Christ.
“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring
good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who
proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” (Isa
52:7)
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