FULL (of what?)

God is about us taking in more of Him than anything else in this world. Why than do we fill ourselves up with everything else? I am still trying to figure it out. Besides the easy answers that lead us to selfishness and our sinful human nature, why do we put God as an after-thought in our lives?
Is it because we want other things more than God? Do we desire more of this world rather than more of God? As I grow older and as I grow in my journey with Christ I have realized that with each day I must rely on Christ for EVERYTHING (even the air I breath). Things seems to really get out of whack when I don't rely on Christ. That's when things go south, haywire, crazy, you get the point.
Maybe the problem is that we don't put into action our lives as followers of Christ. We are just okay hearing and never doing, teaching and never showing through example the life of Christ.
If we never do what we say or what we read in the Word than what difference will it make. Head knowledge by itself is good if you want a degree, but transforming that knowledge into action is where something happens. Transformation is an action and action only happens when we move, go, or do. Knowledge is only as good as the one who is being followed. So I guess the question would be, "Who are we following today, tomorrow, next month?" In the end who we decide to fill ourselves up with will determine who we are becoming and where we are going.

freedom

Paul talks about our "freedom in Christ" in the book of Galatians. Yet this freedom is abused more times than we would like to admit. We use it to indulge in the "flesh". Then we say, "I have freedom in Christ to do this, so back off you judgemental hypocrite. Paul would let us have it if he was still around today. This freedom is not to do what WE want, but rather to serve one another in love! We don't have to serve each other because it is required by the law, but because we do it out of love. It boils down to the flesh vs. Spirit, our good works vs. the work of Christ, our own abilities vs. the grace of God, running the race of life by the law vs. running it by grace, legalism vs. freedom. How will I live? How will I choose? Legalism has no place in the life of the follower of Christ.

Have you ever noticed that legalism causes us to fight each other like nothing else, it consumes us. Living in the flesh causes us to miss opportunities for service and love each other in the name of Jesus. How much have we missed out on because of "law living"?

Lets start living each day by the Spirit, serving one another in love out of the freedom that we have been given by Christ.