Vain Imaginations" often we have to determine to demolish some things in our lives. don't make the mistake of thinking that deliverance from sin is deliverance from human nature. We all are born with sinful human nature, we just can't escape that, but when we take a good look in the mirror at ourselves" we are forced into the reality of who we really are, and right there we make a decision to either change or stay in the sin of "vain imaginations" I recently viewed this video of MJ, one of my favorite songs by him was "the man in the mirror" listening to the words are powerful and dynamic.
We cannot neglect destroying the things that we know are not good for us or pleasing to our Lord and Savoir, Jesus Christ. Depending on Divine Strength imparted by God's Spirit is our only hope in fighting and casting down vain imaginations thinking that we are all THAT, and a "bag of chips". It is only when God has altered our disposition and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The warfare is not against sin, we can never fight against sin, Jesus Christ deals with our sin nature in the Redemption. The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. (you have to want it desperately!)
I found that it is done only by a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense of character, He makes us holy in the sense of innocence and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices. Lets face it my Brothers and Sisters in this spiritual journey we are always going to have to fight our sin nature, we must pull down every vain imagination that tries to take over in our lives. A long time ago, I discovered that people can throw all kinds of compliments, putting you up on pedestals, admire your looks and pump you up for a great fall.
Vain imaginations will fester and cause you to either fall in a sinful trap or set you up for a killer snare that can take you out of here before your time. (MJ's life)...was definitely before his time.....
We must continue to earnestly pray, staying humble before our Lord, and train our ear-gates and eye-gates to see and hear whatever comes our way with a spiritual understanding. We can either go back and make ourselves of no account in the Kingdom of God, or we can determine to demolish all "vain imaginations" and bring total Glory to our Heavenly Father here on earth as it is in Heaven.
my prayer: Lord, make this a royal day with us, touch us O'Lord, that all our spiritual and material life may be in attuned to Your purposes. Just a touch from You and I know all will be well and we will be strengthen to continue running our race and be not weary in our well doing......I Love you Lord with my whole heart......amen
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