November
25
"For we spent enough of our past
lifetime
in doing the will of the
Gentiles,
when we walked in lewdness,
lusts, drunkenness,
revelries,
drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.
In
regard to these, they think it strange
that
you do not run with them
in the same
flood of dissipation,
speaking evil
of you."
1 Peter 4:3-4
When
one is born again, he is so changed inside that he loses interest in
the things that previously made up his life, and it's quite
remarkable to experience this. To those he used to go with, they
cannot understand. They are not ABLE to understand the changes in
him. So they speak evil of him.
If one approaches Christ and
desires to be born again he must know first that there will be a
price to pay, this experience is going to radically change him. He
may suffer the loss of friends, sometimes even family, because he has
entered into a whole new and different kind of life. Only he who
wants God with all his heart need ask to be born again.
On a
yardstick, the life we live here is the first 1/16 inch. The rest is
the life we will live in eternity. The wise will understand this and
be willing to suffer whatever he must in order to apprehend that for
which he was created.
He will rejoice for all
eternity that he made the right choice.
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