Who's Your Daddy?

We all want to be on the winning team. We all want to think that we are good, right folk. But here is a reality check folks. John says it plain and clear in his first letter.

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 john 3:7-10

So who's your daddy? Are you a child of God or are you a child of the devil? Do you follow Father-God or father-Satan? You can't have it both ways. Those who say, "My sins are covered... I can do whatever I want" take the cross of Jesus Christ for granted. It belittles His sacrifice and that is a foolish game.

Those who abide in Christ find new life. Those who hide in His shadow and use Him as an insurance policy or as a reason avoid responsibility or consequences aren't living to please Him. They aren't living to follow His will or to walk in His ways. It makes me wonder if they truly know him. They are living to please their fleshly desires and follow their own worldly fancy.

This doesn't mean that we Christ-followers become perfect, blameless people. The process of becoming into His imagine is a lifelong venture. We always fight temptations-- that root of the old nature lurks in us... but as we grow closer and closer to Christ, we yearn to ever please Him. We constantly look to Him for strength and guidance and He works in us with his saving grace. God is our good parent, leading us, nurturing us... sometimes telling us no. Through our daily walk with Him, He changes us with His AWESOME LOVE. He works on us until that faitful day that we become refined in the next Kingdom like pure gold.

So next time you have a choice to make, stop and think. Who is your daddy? Who is working in your heart? Will your actions be pleasing to Christ or the evil one.