Who’s Your Boss?

By Contributing Writer, Kimberly at Raising Olives

I think we all agree that Christians should acknowledge that God is our Lord and Master and that we should desire to live in accordance to His will.  Not for salvation, mind you, but because, as those who have been bought with a price, we realize that our purpose is no longer to please ourselves, but rather to please the One who loved us and died for us.

The question is, as you live your life, are you self-consciously acting as if you are a servant of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, or are you thoughtlessly serving the ruler of this world? What is the standard of your vision?

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When push comes to shove, all of us fail to serve God at times, and instead choose to follow our whims and fancies or perhaps the whims and fancies that happen to be popular in our society. This, however, should be the exception, not the rule, and we should look back across time and see dramatic growth and change in our life as we continue to reject the world’s standard and hold onto God’s standard in more and more areas.

Kellly’s short, yet excellent post reminds us that if we do nothing, we will be conformed to this world. It takes thought and effort to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. It takes self-examination and a constant questioning of what we do and say. This is what we’re talking about when we say vision. If we don’t have God’s vision in any particular area, then we’ve borrowed the world’s.

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

All Christians have blind spots, and God is gracious, but this is not an excuse to continue on in our blindness. Instead we should ask God for forgiveness and ask Him to show us where we have disobeyed because of our ignorance or blindness.

As we work and pray to find more blind spots, we should ask ourselves, “What is my biblical reason for _____________?” “What is God’s standard about_____?”

Nothing is neutral. We are either serving Christ in each decision or action, or we are against Christ. If we say that God has no standard in a given area, then we  have taken the place of God to determine ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

What are your biblical reasons for…

• the way you educate your children? (Here are some of our reasons)
• what you do first thing in the morning?
• immunizing your children or not?
• being in debt or not?
• the books/movies/music you own?
• who you vote for? God has objective standards for our leaders, do you know what they are?
• the people you spend your time with? the people your children spend their time with?
• how you care for your body, the temple of God?

Is Christ Jesus the Lord of your life in these areas? What other areas can you think of?

We examine, ask, read God’s Word and pray so that our minds may be renewed. This is our vision: to live more like Christ each and every day.

You may also be interested in “By Whose Standard?“.

 

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