“Abandoning The Flesh” ~ ✨
A single word can stir up anger; speaking angry words all day long keeps a person trapped in wrath for a lifetime. People are born to accumulate—accumulating resentment and enmity, generation after generation. This is the curse that comes from sin!
Children also accumulate—accumulating blessings or grievances, nurtured from an early age. The people a child trusts most are their parents; losing trust in one’s parents can make a person stop believing in anything for the rest of their life. The curse of one generation is passed down to the next. Generations lacking in faith and love cause life to become bleak, sinking into a sea of suffering. So, who can break the curse of sin?
Although humanity sins, from ancient times to the present, God has never abandoned people. He said: “I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak…” (Ezekiel 34:16).
Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus, the Son of the living God, indeed came; He came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10). Jesus came to pay the wages of sin for humanity; this wage is death, which is the fate of those who live in sin (Romans 5:12). If a person believes that Jesus is Christ the Saviour, they can be set free from sin; because He is the light, He came to rescue people from darkness, rekindling faith and hope for those who had lost all expectation in belief.
“Faith” drives “action,” and actions testify to faith; faith without works is dead (James 2:14 & 17). That is to say, a faith without deeds cannot save a person. “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!” (James 2:19). Those who are born of the Spirit of God are “born-again”; this life is enveloped by “faith”, “hope” and “love”. The old self has died, and the born-again person is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3).
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child; and when I became a man, I put aside childish things (1 Corinthians 13:11). One puts aside childish things, but one must not discard the purity of a child. Parents often say, “Even though our children grow up, in our presence, even at 99 years old, they are still our children.”
Yet, the love of earthly parents is not infinite; because the flesh is under the curse of sin, causing people to live and act according to the flesh. Those who are “born again” are hidden with Christ in God; that is to say, all who are adopted as children by God are eternally God’s children. God’s love is infinite, for He is the “I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14), and His love endures forever (Psalm 100:5). Therefore, God’s children must listen to everything that proceeds from the mouth of God, because His words are the bread that gives life (Matthew 4:4).
Everyone has a fate, but wisdom complements one’s destiny. Find wisdom, and you find the safeguarding of the heart (Proverbs 4:5-6). Guard your heart above all else, for a joyful heart brings gladness, and a fearful heart brings terror (Proverbs 4:23; 15:13; 17:22). Meditate often on God’s words, and linger less on past events; only then can you grasp the blessings God bestows.
The Lord has already paid the debts of the past for those who believe in Him. Let the burdens of yesterday become today’s lightness. Starting from today, store up treasures in heaven for the sake of love and righteousness. If you do this, your life will be lived with meaning!
I leave this poem as a message 👇🏻
“Faith is Destiny” ✨
On earth life wages war—to win the peace of heaven.
Faith and unbelief are at enmity.
Hope and hopelessness cannot agree.
Love and lust contend eternally.
Those in faith, hope and love belong to heaven.
Lacking in all three, they return to dust.
Destiny is not yours to choose—
What is yours is how you meet it.
✨✨💖 ~
en yan hua fang 