Granny Gwen's Blog: Apr 21, 2021

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

The Difference Between Believer and Pretender

If someone wants to continue in sin, even defending it they have never been born again. The first thing that happens when Christ changes us into a new creation is our developing hatred of sin. The very things we used to like we hate, the things that we disliked of God we love.

There is a difference between a flawed growing Christian who is changing over the years and one who fights to defend their sin because they love it. 

One, the one who is flawed but hates sin will go to heaven because they are born again.

The one who fights to defend sin in spite of being shown it is sin, does not have a hatred for sin and has never been born again. 

John 3:8-10 "…8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. 
Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother."

For the believer, we pray for the strength to keep on growing in holiness as they seek Christ. 

For the pretender who still loves their sin, we pray for salvation, that God would convict them of their sin and soften their stone heart.

Missing Those Things We Take for Granted

We always miss the things we take for granted when they are removed!

Truth Makes Some People Mad

Throwing a Veil over Sin

No One is Better than Someone Else!!

When we love someone we don't try to shape them into being like us. We appreciate them for who they are, even feeling blessed that they bring other ideas to the relationship that didn't come to our mind. 

Every human being has strengths we don't know about unless we care enough to get to know them. No one's calling is lesser than another one's calling. All the callings come from Jesus Christ, He is the special one. 

Personalities are very diverse, they can enhance our life experience when we stop judging what is not sin. 

It's alright to judge according to God's Word concerning sin and upholding righteousness, but there is no place for judging someone over their hair, clothing or work styles.  There is no place for judging someone's taste in home decorating or talents. 

Those who judge these things are arrogant and lacking in good sense. 

Corinthians 12:15-26
"15 If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any less a part of the body. 
And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any less a part of the body. 
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 
But now God has arranged the parts, each one of them in the body, just as He desired. 
If they were all one part, where would the body be? 
But now there are many parts, but one body. 
And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again, the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 
On the contrary, it is much truer that the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; 
and those parts of the body which we consider less honorable, on these we bestow the greater honor, and our less presentable parts become much more presentable, 
whereas our more presentable parts have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked, 
so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same care for one another. 
And if one part of the body suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if a part is [g]honored, all the parts rejoice with it."

See that, no part of the body is better than any other part. Every part of the body is equal no matter what their calling because they are all being directed by Jesus Christ in them. It is Jesus Christ Who is above and special, not the human being He possesses. 