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Barriers from living the Word of God

Written by Mantebeah Elizabeth Matilda Abena.

 

“They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity... ”(NLT) Ephesians 4:19-32

We all have an inborn desire to live for something. As Christians, ours is to live for God. And it’s not just living for God but living “right” for him according to his will. In today’s Christian age, like all the other believers that lived in the times of the apostles, many of us sometimes give ourselves to our emotions, human traditions, personal feelings and opinions when it comes to the word of God.

In our attempt to please people, humans like our own selves; we disobey the God of all lives and the giver of life himself, to whose glory everything was made and existed. We have no shame in distorting scripture as long as it is to our benefit. God is calling out to us once more to repent and to seek to do his will.

Hebrews 10:22-26 says “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised); And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins” (KJV)

The time is now and today may be all we have got to turn around. We must move away from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life that prevents us from living God’s word. However, we must draw near to God in prayer and the study of his word that will enable us to live for him and to help other Christians do the same.

May God grant us grace and may he help and strengthen us as we seek to live for him by abandoning all human opinions and sentiments. Amen.

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