A WORTHY LIFE
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Thess. 1:11 And so we keep on praying
for you, that our God will make you worthy of the life to which he called
you. And we pray that God, by his power,
will fulfill all your good intentions and faithful deeds. NLT
Are you worthy of eternal life? In order to be worthy of eternal life, we
must be living holy lives. We must be
striving to stay away from sinning against God.
We must be living to the best of our ability by the Word of God. We must not cater to sin and those who live
in it. We must be living always in a
state of readiness for Christ's return.
Notice that it is God who makes us
worthy. It is the work of God in us that
makes us fit for heaven. The Holy Spirit
is constantly molding and shaping us into a people after God's own heart. It is the Spirit who is constantly teaching
us new things to apply to our lives to make us more holy. It is God's expectation of us to be holy and
He is working to make it happen as long as we let Him. However, He will not make us into who we have
no desire of being. We must love Him
enough to want to be a holy people and we must trust in His work to make it
happen.
It behooves us to pray and ask the Lord
to do His work in us. Our greatest need
is to be holy before God. Without
holiness, we shall not see God. We must
be open to the Lord having His way with us.
Our sinful nature wants to resist the changes God needs to make in
us. We must pray faithfully and
sincerely that we will let the Lord have His way with us. We will then find that what we intend to do
and what we do will line up with God's will and be pleasing and holy before
Him.
A worthy life is a fully surrendered life
to Christ. It is a life that is
completely dedicated to becoming holy in conduct, conversation, and contemplation. God’s will is that each of His children is
found to be worthy of eternal life in Christ.
Are you living a worthy life in Christ?
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