Christian Suicide: "Daily task of becoming like Christ"
Colossians 3:5 “So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshipping the things of this world.”
Paul gets to the very heart of the issue with us in this verse. He explains that becoming a follower of Jesus Christ is to put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within our lives. Paul suggest that becoming a follower of Jesus is a form of suicide. It is killing those things in our lives that seek to pull us away from becoming like Christ. Paul urges us to have nothing to do with these evil desires and that giving into these desires is actually choosing to worship the ways of the world; it is idolatry.
I am feeling so convicted this morning. I find myself falling into this trap of these evil desires; its like I desire to rid myself of them but they creep up into my life…..it is a constant battle. I wonder if I have put these things to death in my life……I wonder if putting these desires away are a daily task and I should never be so naive as to think that one time of repentance will cure me of these desires. The fact is I am screwed up; I’m infected with this disease of sin and it is a daily task to try to stay in remission and there are those times of relapse in my life. I fall before Jesus in these moments and say God, I have sinned against you and I am in desperate need of your forgiving grace and sanctifying grace that will put to death those evil desires that I may be fully equipped to serve you today without distraction.
Lord Jesus, I am desperate for you today. I know that I need cleansed. I daily need you to come into my life and crucify my sin and resurrect me to new life. I give my life to you today and ask you to cleanse me. May I never be so arrogant as to think that I have arrived without sin and if that happens may you kill that sin of arrogance and raise me up into new life. Give me the grace to die and rise with you on a daily basis that you continue to mold me into the man you desire for me to be. Protect me from complacency and a false assurance that ignores the constant need of repentance in my life. May I experience more and more each day your reality and may each day I grow farther and farther away from the world’s unreality. Amen!
In Christ I am called to die and rise on a daily basis.
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