Right Living 1

We were given responsibility for and have dominion over the earth, over the seed bearing plants and the fruit trees (Genesis 1:28-29) .

Yet…

• At least 650 million people (many of them children) are addicted to tobacco. Just today, October 20th, 2012, according to the “worldometers.info” world statistics web site, there has been 14,650,000,000 cigarettes smoked by 11:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time. That is fourteen billion six-hundred and fifty million in one day. Tobacco is a plant and they are slaves to that plant.

• Millions and millions of people are alcoholics, nearly 14 million Americans—1 in every 13 adults – abuse alcohol or are alcoholic, according to infoplease.com, a world statistics center. Alcohol is made from corn, barley, rye and grapes.

• Shocking numbers are slaves to opium and heroin, the poppy plant

• Slaves to cocaine, the cocoa leaf.

• Slaves to the marijuana plant

• Slaves to sugar

• Slaves to unhealthy food

Some startling statistics, aren’t they? These things cause much of the disease that we have in our society. I believe that God's enemy has tried to make a mocary of God by causing as much of mankind to become slaves to the very thing God gave him dominion over.

It’s time for those who honestly want to seek God, truth and wisdom to live a life that exemplifies exactly that, truth and wisdom.  This way we can put a stop to this mocary and step into the rightful place God has intended us to be.

When Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way the truth and the life,” the word truth in the Greek means reality. To me, that means He wants us to be real! God would rather have us say that we are not able to surrender to the lifestyle that He is asking of us right now, rather than pretend to be Godly. This is why the Bible says in Revelation 3:20 “So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.”

If we say with our mouth that we want to do what is right (righteous), and we proclaim that we have the answer( who is Christ), then we need to be at the forefront of right living and setting a wise example. God has empowered us to live a life of victory and that only comes from right living, which is righteousness. God needs us to get real with Him. He needs us to think healthy in every area of our lives, including taking our health seriously. We produce after our own kind, and if we live a life of compromise then the people that we influence will also live a life of compromise and the cycle goes on and on.

That’s why I believe that this cycle must be broken, and it begins with each one of us. If God is going to do a work on the earth then we must give Him the willing vessels to work through. We must surrender to His Lordship. He is the King and we are His servants. He is our older brother but He is also the King and we must honor and respect and surrender to His Kingship. Through Him there is great power to overcome the enemy, but the Holy Spirit of God can only move through an obedient vessel. The Bible says it like this, “If you are willing and obedient you shell eat the good of the land” (Isaiah 1:19).