The BIBLE says, “If we are out of our minds, it is for the sake of God…” (II Corinthians 5:13) So, “WHY Do We Get Besides Ourselves and Out of Our MINDS?”
BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:
The question is: “How is this madness for the sake of God?”
Allow me to answer this question right away! The Lord allows us to stomp through life doing our own thang! But one day, we will fall down in the mud and no one will be able to deliver us! At that point, we will ask the Lord to forgive us and to restore us! When this happens, our deliverance is for the Glory of God!
Like it or not, we have all sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God…we all are out of our minds and besides ourselves…
(1) Feeling Besides Yourself? If you have a regular and good paying job, you may feel superior to someone who is unemployed. If you have a house and your neighbor losses his house, you may feel blessed or you may find fault assuming your neighbor deliberately defaulted payments. However, this can be further from the truth as your neighbor can be loosing his job, incurring medical bills, or financially stressed out. Do not allow yourself to get besides yourself! Even if you are 6 feet tall, you can fall just as hard as 3 feet midget!
(2) Feeling Out of Your Mind? If you are financially strapped, living in sin, married to an alcoholic, married to an adulterous woman or man, suffering with a disloyal mate, an addicted drug user, about to loose your job, about to make a fatal mistake, about to throw in the towel, about to take your own life, feeling there is no hope or no help for you, or whatever.
I have good news for you! Apostle Paul tells us, “Christ died for ALL that they which live should not live unto themselves but unto Him which died for them and rose again…” (II Corinthians 5:15) Purposely, Jesus came down from Heaven to die on the cross for us and His love constrains us to give heed to His sacrifice and His Word. No matter what you do, JESUS LOVES YOU but not your deliberate acts of defiance against His Commandments! Apostle Paul says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” (II Corinthians 4:10)
Have a Blessed Day!
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