Too Blessed To Be Stressed By Uncertainty

Common Sense Commentary:

Are you a true believer in Jesus Christ, a spiritually born again, redeemed, converted, saved, heaven bound Christian?  I didn't ask if you were good enough, perfectly sinless in your flesh, worthy of salvation, or worked your way into acceptance by our Holy God.  I didn't ask if you tithed, or never have a bad thought, or say a bad word under your breath, or smoked a cigarette or drank a beer last week, or ever feel lust,  anger,  jealousy,  selfishness, or told a little white lie (exaggerated something). I didn't even ask if you have been baptized, or read your Bible every day, or even if you go to church regularly.  I asked, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?  If you have sincerely asked God, with a repentant heart, to save your soul, because of what Jesus Christ did on that cross for you, you are saved.  And if your sins are forgiven, the Spirit of Christ lives in you even though you are not perfect in your flesh.  The Apostle Paul, speaking to the Roman Christians said, "But you are NOT IN THE FLESH but in the SPIRIT, IF so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you.   Now if any man  (human) HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, he is NONE of His." Rom.8:9.  If a professing Christian doesn't have the Holy Spirit, they are not saved at all. If you truly have the love of Christ in your soul, and are saved, heaven is your final home, God is your father, Christ is your Saviour, and you are "Too Blessed To Be Stressed By Uncertainty" ! So STOP IT!   Don't waste your vital time and life doubting, trying your best to be perfect or good enough to deserve Christ. Stop fussing at yourself or calling yourself names when you fall short.   STOP IT!  Oh yes, I know we Christians must always strive to live an overcoming, perfect, totally committed life, but absolutely NOBODY lives up on that mountain all the time and only God Himself can keep us saved in this wicked world.  
"There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not." Ecc.7:20.

Jesus ALONE never falls short of the glory of God.... not you and not me, JESUS only.  All of us flesh and blood human beings stumble, fail, sin in the flesh and often find ourselves back down in that fleshly valley.... in a mud puddle of sin (anger, greed, bitterness, gossip, worry, fear, doubt or worse).  You say worry isn't sin. What is it if it is not a lack of faith?  Jesus said, "Fear not".  Anyone who says they never sin and fall short of God's standard of righteousness is a liar.  "For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God."  Rom.3:23.  Stop lying about it ... We are all flawed in our flesh if not in our born again soul ... where God lives and where we are spiritually reborn ... not in our frail, sinful flesh. Look at your flesh.  Is that the part of you which is "born again", clean, perfect?  No!   Jesus drew a line of distinction between the inner man and the outer man, " That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Jn.3:6.  "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Mt.14:38.  "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing...." Jn.6:63.  That is why the Apostle Paul was so clear on this subject and said, "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor15:50.  And then he confessed, "In me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth NO good thing...." Rom.7:18.  Paul challenged the Christians, "Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are CONTRARY the one to the other...."  Gal.5:16-17.  The Spiritually born again Christian has a two fold nature, the inner, spiritual person and the outward, fleshly person.  Do not confuse the two.  Only Jesus was sinless in both flesh and Spirit. 


Of course, we Christians must strive to live an overcoming, spiritual, Christ-like, perfect life but none of us will reach that perfection  until Jesus returns for us .... "When He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." 1 Jn.3:2.  Our flesh shall remain in the grave, imperfect, dead, corrupting until that great day when Jesus returns and brings the born-again "Spirits of just men made perfect" Heb.12:23 to be rejoined with their bodies at which time they shall be glorified as they are resurrected and "we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as he is." 1Jn.3:2.  For now we, like the Ancient Mariner, must live with  this corruptible flesh hanging around our necks until we are set free from it.  Until then, as the "beloved" Apostle John said, "If WE (included himself) say WE have no sin, WE deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us".    Jn.1:8.
 
There are dozens of other verses I could use, but let me close with this challenge.  Read Romans 7. In this chapter, the Apostle Paul explains the purpose of the Law of Moses and 10 Commandments in bringing sinners to Christ.  It is our "schoolmaster" (Gal.3:24-25) to convince us we are sinners. Then Paul humbly opens his heart in honest confession and describes, in repetitious detail, the constant, raging war going on between his inward spiritual man which is born again and his outward fleshly man which is NOT.  We all share that conflict with Apostle Paul.   In the last twelve verses of Rom.7
I counted Paul's use of the personal pronoun (I,me,my) 25 times and the present tense verb 35 times.  Any honest person who knows anything about language must confess that Paul is speaking of HIMSELF  and in the PRESENT TENSE, at the time he wrote it.  He was speaking as a born again, secure, Christian Apostle not as an unsaved sinner.  He was saying ,"I am not perfect in the flesh but I am still saved." If you can't see that, you may never have even been saved.  If you are, in fact, saved...
You are too blessed to be stressed ... rest by faith in Jesus alone.
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us."
Titus 3:5

Pass it on. RB