How To… IV

“Do not allow this world to mold you in its own image. Instead, be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind. As a result, you will be able to discern what God wills and whatever God finds good, pleasing, and complete” Rom.12:2 [VOICE]

“…Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world” Col.3:5 [emphasis added]. What is greed? There is a difference between your need and your want; greed is needing what you want. How many cars does a man really need? One but God can bless him with three or five. But a man really only needs one car or maybe two, one for him and another for his wife and children. You have three cars already but you want to have seven so that you can arrive at the village in a convoy. You want it so much that you think you need it, that is greed. Greed is when you make your want your need. God is saying to us, put to death sexual immorality, put to death impurity, put to death lust, put to death evil desires, and put to death greed.

What you wear is what people see. When you wear red what people will see is red. People cannot see your heart but people can see your attitude. You can claim not to know why people think you are proud where as you are a humble person. Or you can claim every other person is wrong for labeling you proud and insist that you are humble. Check, most likely you may be wearing pride, just check. So what are we to put off? “But now is the time to put off all these; anger, wrath [rage], malice, blasphemy, filthy communication [dirty language] out of your mouth.  Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds” Col.3:8-9 [emphasis added]. “Put off”, this implies you can easily wear them but God says do not wear them, put them off. Anger, some of us are just proud to be angry people. Anger is not going to get you anywhere, put it off. Rage is anger in action. In other words, you have moved from being angry to manifesting anger – breaking things, pushing people, punching people, and threatening people. God says put it off! Filthy communication, dirty language; it is amazing how people use fowl language when they are under pressure. Some people even come up with creative twists in pronouncing these words, I am sure you can think of a few but God is saying put off filthy communication – the ‘F’ words, the ‘B’ words, and the ‘T’ words. You can substitute them which is what a lot of us have done. Just substitute it nobody is saying deny the motion or do not express the motion, but do not let filthy communication come out of your mouth. Put it off!

Prayer: Father, let this truth that I have learnt today transform my heart and my thinking, let it transform my words and my speaking, in Jesus Name.