Follow Me

It’s 5:50 A.M. right now. I’ve been awake since 5:17 A.M. Why? Well, I randomly woke up. But almost immediately upon waking up, I felt God tell me to pick up the book I have been reading called “Follow Me”, and that was that.I didn’t understand why. So I read a little bit, went back to sleep for about 10 minutes. Then felt the need to open that book again. I was reading and reading and then BAM. I finally got to a section of the book that once I read it, I knew exactly why I felt God leading me to read so early in the morning. I am going to paste the section into here so you can read it as well. I feel like someone on here can benefit from this message as well.”We don’t try to see how far we can go or how much we can get away with before being considered “of the world.” That’s dangerous and when you do so, you are playing with fire. Proverbs 6:27 says, “Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?” It should not be natural for Christians to sin. We should not be using foul language, lying, cheating, or stealing. We shouldn’t be drinking and smoking. All these things should seem unnatural to us. It’s not our nature anymore. We have become a new creation and have been given the very nature of God. Galatians called this behavior “the works of the flesh.”Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery [drug use], hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissentions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in the past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19–21) Then, in Colossians 3:8–9, it says, “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with His deeds.” I’m not saying that if you commit one of these acts there is no place of repentance for you. Of-course there is. Yes, God forgives us when we mess up, but we aren’t to be habitually practicing any of these things. Jesus gave His life to set us free from sin.” Excerpt from Follow Me by Dion Dimola