Tuesday, February 9, 2010

It's Your Thing; Do What YOU Want to Do


You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your god is giving you... Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
Deuteronomy 12:8, 32



Christianity is not a religion of the individual, to do what you want to do, but a conforming one. It is conforming to the will of God as revealed in His Word and Word Incarnate, Jesus Christ.

Our natural tendency as sinners is to want to rebel against this conformity to be God's beloved children and do what we want, not what He wants. This is at the very heart, we should understand, of the Satanic Bible, 'do what thou wants'. So, we desire to stand out, to be different from the rest, to set off in directions and to frontiers where no one before us has dared to go. And there is strong pressures in our culture and world to make us conform to this "do your own thing mentality." This is deceptive and false when it comes to our relationship with God and our desire to enter the Promised Land of Heaven. As Paul writes so powerfully in Romans 12: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." The power to do this resistance to conforming to the world's mold of "do your own thing" is the Gospel. The Good News that Jesus died for our rebellion to God's will and this saving work powers us now not to live for ourselves and do what we want, but live for Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. (Galatians 2:20)

In Deuteronomy Moses was giving a sermon series on God's revelation to His people before they entered the Promised Land, having come through the wilderness. Their was to be no individuality in their life with God, of doing what they individually thought was right and proper before God, but was to be governed solely by His Word. We too are on the edge of the Promised Land of heaven having been in the wilderness of this world. We too are to be governed by His Word, with no additions or subtractions from it as our guide. We are too resist our world's strong influence to change God's to whatever we desire, like or want--whatever is right in our own eyes. For our eyes have seen the marvelous salvation from our sins in Jesus' cross and empty grave and that transforms us to conform our hearts and lives to His truth found in Sacred Scripture.

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