LIVING A PAR-CHEESY LIFE
Monday, February 16, 2015
Romans
[GW] 12:1-3 Brothers and sisters, in view of all we have
just shared about God's compassion, I encourage you to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, dedicated to God and pleasing to him. This kind of worship
is appropriate for you. Don't become like the people of this world. Instead,
change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God
really wants-what is good, pleasing, and perfect. Because of the kindness that
God has shown me, I ask you not to think of yourselves more highly than you should.
Instead, your thoughts should lead you to use good judgment based on what God
has given each of you as believers.
1Corinthians
[MKJV] 2 … as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor
ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things
which God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches
all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of
a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of
God except the Spirit of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world,
but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given
to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does
not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. …
My 6 year old
grandson likes table games. He beats me at most of them including Monopoly, which
is horrific considering I was King of Monopoly in family and neighborhood
growing up.
I introduced him
to Parcheesi last week, and regained itty bit of status beating him . . .
albeit by the skin of my teeth. Had he understood Parcheesi strategy he would
have easily skunked his PopPop; something to look forward to.
This set me to
thinking about individuals, though mature in decades and some successful by
this world’s philosophies, live a spiritually par-cheesy life.
Life certainly isn’t
a table game to be won or lost, but as with games outcome of eternal value very
much depends on decisions, especially those made early on . . . and then continually
stood upon. Mary Fear, Overcomers In Christ cofounder and director, points out “The
past makes a valuable guidepost but a dangerous hitching post.” This is true
whether resting upon past successes or past shortcomings and failures.
Again quoting
from the Overcomers workbook:
To
live a new life, we change our habits;
To
change our habits, we change our choices;
To
change our choices, we change our thinking;
To
change our thinking, we believe God’s Truth.
This absolutely actual
factual whether playing Parcheesi or living a par-cheesy life!
EBB4
PS. For more on helpful life-guidance through Overcomers
In Christ: http://overcomersinchrist.org/
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