Good Friday

I've been wanting to make some healthy changes for a while now. But lately, I've been feeling the need to make a specific change much sooner than later. It's a very difficult decision so I shared with my line sisters for accountability purposes. I was confident and excited about my decision that I was going to make by Easter Sunday.

Then boom!

YESTERDAY

Every thought yesterday made me wanna go back to the old me. I was getting ready to give up on my whole goal; I kept telling myself that I wouldn't succeed in it so I might as well stay where I am.

YESTERDAY

I had a moment where I walked past the mirror and said to myself, “You don’t like beautiful”.  When I went into the living, my husband said to me, “You look beautiful? I knew God was telling me that this wasn’t me! This this was my fork in the road. Was I going to choose to really go all in with Christ and be who He wants me to be, or give up and choose hell? NO SERIOUSLY! This is where I was. Was I going to stick with my decision to let go of things or just keep living life however I wanted to even though I knew better?

Y'all know what we're getting ready to celebrate in a few days! A resurrection, a rising, a rally of victory. We are able to rise with Christ also but before we can resurrect, some of us need to kill some stuff in our lives that have us only partially good instead of well done.

Since we say we believe Jesus rose with ALL POWER in his hands, then why in the world don’t we stand on His truth and let go of the things that risking eternity? We are tasked daily with carrying our cross. This is what most focus on. Yes we carry it. But the crucifixion, this is the part most of us never even reach. We'll carry stuff all day but at some point, you have to decide if you're going to kill the things that need to be killed, conquer them and overcome (reign over) them, or just boast about being stuck carrying a cross. At the end of carrying the cross was death. At the appointed time, he gave up the ghost. no fight. not a quit, a surrender to fulfill the assignment. He was destined to die, he sacrificed his human flesh. Instead of choosing to please people who were still looking for their earthly king, He knew he had to give up the ghost to because our indwelling comforter; the HOLY GHOST! 

Listen, our ages are getting as big as our backs and some of us are still drinking milk, claiming Christianity while not even trying anymore to let go of stuff that makes us smell like the world.

I'm not here to please man, The only one worth pleasing is the only one at the end of it all can tell me, "Well Done!" 

If you've been straddling, today is the day to choose what you're going to do. No more lukewarmness. No one is going to tell you what you already know you need to do. You don't need confirmation, you need to be obedient. We aint got a lot of time. Make that decision and be free of the guilt of "letting everyone down". 

Be obedient so you can start bearing fruit.

So this year, before we start shouting all across the sanctuary, can we make a collective effort to "choose ye this day"? You may not think about this truth but we all have no idea when our grace is going to run out. It's time, TODAY, to choose.