Now We Look Inside

Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.
2 Corinthians 5:16‭-‬20 MSG

God has all the right moves when it comes to relationships. Probably because He is God and He made us. When we relate the way He tells us and use His blueprint, things work out.

The problems come when we allow our emotions to be God and start shooting off verbal bullets without thinking. Verbal bullets are dangerous. With our mouths we praise God and shoot down our brother and sister in Christ. We really have to get the message: we are not God and He does a way better job. Let Him write the script.

Trouble happens when we give our emotions to a song, a movie or a series of books that are filled with worldly mannerisms and ways. We are then torn between Christ and the flesh. When in Brisbane my eldest grandson wanted to see a particular movie and saw nothing wrong with it. I explained that we cannot allow our emotional attraction to something to call truth. I told him his dad would evaluate the show non-emotionally and determine what was good for him.

Tonight I am watching a documentary on Saturday Night Fever. A movie that came out in 1977. Because a lot of the soundtracks were by a favourite band: The Bee Gees, I went to watch the movie and of course the dancing drew me in. Yet as I watch the making of the movies and see what bad language and immorality is in it, I realise that I also, at that time, allowed my emotions to dictate truth.

We cannot allow the 'feel good phenomena' make a call on truth. Feeling good is emotion; what is actually good is determined by God's word.

Prayer: Father as we face another new year (2019) I ask that You will be the centre of all truth for me. Amen!