To die is to gain and to live is to die.

The problem with a living sacrifice is it gets off the alter, we've all heard this saying before, recently God has been dealing with me about dying to the flesh. We as christians cannot let the flesh control us or lead us around on a leash, we must let the spirit of God lead us to be effective christians. To die to the flesh is gain, we gain it all and we don't have anything to lose but this life on earth, to live to the flesh and for worldly desires is to die. Jesus paid the price and God gave up his only beloved son for us, Jesus also lived a sinless life and gave not only his life on the cross, but his life the whole time he was on this earth. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain we must sacrfice our selves on God's altar and die to the flesh so that we can stop crawling off the altar.

Trials

As christians we all go through trials and temptations in our walk with God, they are not all easy and we don't always pass with a perfect score, but if we keep on pressing on we will be transformed into the image of his dear son Jesus Christ. The world looks at us and wants to see us rising up, we can look at our brothers and sisters and see that their lives look perfect and they are doing it right, they are reading their bible at least 12 chapters a day and we are struggling with 1. I am going through a trial and it has been hard but I am thankful that God is always faithful and that he will never put on us more than we can handle and that this will pass. I will hold on to God as hard as I can and give thanks when he brings me out. Is going through trials worth it? To me it is, I want to be used by God, I want my mind renewed daily and I want him to search me and try me and change me daily, I want to be refined by fire and I want to give all my life to him and hold nothing back but sometimes my flesh gets in the way or i get busy and I rush through prayer. I want to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and sometimes its hard to put aside my schedule for his but its what I want more than anything. I think trials grow us and most important we need to be faithful in our time with God, if we commit to an hr a day of prayer we need to be there and stop pushing the snooze button.