FAITH CAPSULE: In this wicked world, all should live as upright believers.
Colossians 3
What kind of believer are you in this wicked world of today?
Are you a believing believer or an unbelieving believer?
The majority of believers today are a mouthful of the word of God but not mind-full of the word of God.
Many are far from God, answering as a believer but living as unbelieving believers with actions that are not desperate for God but occupied with self-interests.
What is your action saying before God?
Does your action point you out as a believer before God?
Action speaks louder than voice.
Desperate action, demonstrated before God, will gain the attention of God to see it as faith.
In the testimony of a paralytic man, God saw faith in his action.
Mark 2:1-5 records action before Jesus, “And again, He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. Immediately many gathered together so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
Jesus saw faith in the paralytic roof-tearing action.
Are you a mouthful believer with action desperate for self-interest or the glory of God?
Action rooted in the word of God delivers an answer that gives glory to God.
Believers set their minds on the things above, answering as upright believers are few.
Is it your desire to be living as an upright believer?
Among the promises of God for the upright believer is recorded in
Psalm 112:4, “Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness…”
The devil is taking charge of the world under darkness, working around to devour.
However, living by the word will make one an upright believer.
To fear God is to be living life in obedience to the word of God, while darkness will be giving up for the light of God to be keeping the believing one.
Live upright, be raised with Jesus, seeking the things of God which are in the above.
Colossians 3:1-5 records, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”
Fear God and live as an upright believer of God.
Prayer for today: Ask that the fear of God shall answer for you as a garment.