The Daily Guide
Time for a check up
As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him...Take care lest there be any one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.
Colossians 2:6,8 - Weymouth's Translation
Let's challenge ourselves with a personal examination of where we are in Christ. We need to go further than just a check we have received Christ. We need to check how much we are living and acting in vital union with Him. It's time to ask questions about whose notions we are ordering our conduct, words and thinking after. Is it Jesus? Or is it a friend, a politician, Darwin, Freud or some other promoter of human notions?
Where do your present ways and views originate from? Check they aren't hindering you living and acting in the whole dimension of what it means to be living and acting in vital union with Christ. God's word has better ways of doing things and more accurate ways of viewing things than ever any man could originate! Andrew Murray wrote, "We limit the Holy One of Israel perhaps most when we think we honour Him, by thinking that we know and hold in our formulas all His word means."
Challenge yourself today! Ask yourself some searching questions! Ask yourself, "Have I become so involved keeping to man-made ideas that I'm not living out what God's showing me in Christ?" Ask, "Am I missing the point God wants to get across to me because I'm stuck in following a tradition?" A little time spent pondering your ways can reap great rewards. Prov.4:26.
Live in vital union with Christ!
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