“I GET EASILY
UPSET”
Yes Dear
Reader, as a Christian, we long
to be free of the flesh! It’s a battle with the flesh to the day we die
or are
raptured. It is the old nature of the flesh that wars with the Spirit
that
dwells in us, and indeed, our own human spirit as well.
“For the flesh
lusteth against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary
the one to
the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
(Galatians 5:17)
Yes Dear
Reader, the following verse
is our new heart when we get saved.
“My brethren, count
it all joy when
ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your
faith
worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye
may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” (James 1:2-4).
That is the
goal of perfection … and
we can’t do it on our own!
A Christian
must understand the
transformation that happens when a person gets saved.
Now Dear
Reader, God is constantly
shaping us by putting to death the old nature. When you became a
Christian, you
were spiritually circumcised with your soul being separated from your
body, as
the following says …
“In whom also
ye are circumcised with
the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the
sins of
the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in
baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation
of God,
who hath raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:11-12).
Yes, you were
put into the death of
Christ by the Spirit of God, not water …
“For by one
Spirit are we all baptized
into one body …” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
This means
that you are trapped in a
physical body full of sin, but your soul has been cut away.
Although our old nature
does not have dominion over
us, it still exists in our flesh body … while our soul is pure. It’s as
if we
are schizophrenics … two people in one.
Indeed, Paul
sums it up perfectly with
…
“For I
delight in the law of God
after the inward man: But I see another law in my members,
warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law
of sin which
is in my members.” (Romans 7:22-23)
We can react
to trials and temptations
either with resentment and say “Why should this be happening to me”, or
we can
thank God by saying “God is Almighty. He will allow nothing to take
place in my
life, unless he sees that it can be worked for good. I will now thank
the Lord
for showing me I need him 100% to solve this thing!
When we learn
to ‘accept’ life’s
impossible problems/sins with thanksgiving, and praise, to our heavenly
Father,
we become free in our spirits. This then helps us to be objective and
calm, as
we know that the Lord will organize outside influencers and events to
his
glory. Indeed, God enables us to use our problems to become more like
Jesus …
and all to the glory of God.
When we look
at the following
scripture, we see that God filters out every event that takes place in
our
lives and permits only what he will use.
“And we know
that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn
among many brethren.” (Romans 8:28-29)
When we look
at life’s situations with
gratefulness, rather than with a grudge, we let God achieve his best
purpose in
us. He uses the problems and irritations that affect us, to be
conformed to the
image of his Son.
People fail to
see their life from
God’s point of view … by not giving their sin, over to God … and
trusting him
as a little child to work things out for his good … and indeed ours.
Here are six
verses to help you:
From the end
of the earth will I cry
unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to “the rock that
is higher
than I.” (Psalm 61:2).
This is an Old
Testament verse when
people were not in the Rock, but as a Christian, you are now in the
Rock (1
Corinthians 10:4).
“For consider
him (Jesus) that endured
such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be
wearied
and faint in your minds.” (Hebrews 12:3)
Jesus was
infinitely more pressed then
man … and how they tempted him again and again.
Of course, he
had righteous anger
calling them white-washed tombs.
“And he spake
a parable unto them to
this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;”
(Luke 18:1)
eg “Thank you
Lord, let me respond to
this as Jesus would. Help me now so that you will get all the glory for
your
outcome in my life.”
“Casting
all your care upon
him; for he careth for you.” (1 Peter 5:7)
“If we believe
not, yet he abideth
faithful: he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:13)
“Let your
conversation be without
covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath
said, I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5)
Dear Reader,
be encouraged that God
will bless you to the day you die or get raptured, by letting
irritations
irritate you, until you be conformed to the image of his son. You can’t
do this
thing on your own. You now have the power to overcome getting upset
easily. As
the saying goes “God leaves enough fleas on the dog to let it know it’s
a dog,
and that it needs its master.”
Treat your
getting upset … as a
blessing from God to you. You will then see things in a new light.
“Therefore if
any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become
new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Good-bye old
creature … hello new
creature.
Harley
Hitchcock
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