Winning

Read this today and it hit home, enjoy:)  I struggle with cussing, I feel it really does not matter to the Lord becasue I do not htink He think's cuss words are cuss words, some Cultures say the cuss words I say as real words, BUT it does matter to the people I am around and they see it as cuss words and unwholesome words coiming right out of my mouth, so with that said, I pray for the Lord to help me, this reminds me I need to be more discipline my self:) God is doing His part:)

 

Winning into Freedom

“If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).

God pays no attention to our natural individuality in the development of our spiritual life. His plan runs right through our natural life. We must see to it that we aid and assist God, and not stand against Him by saying, “I can’t do that.” God will not discipline us; we must discipline ourselves. God will not bring our “arguments … and every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)—we have to do it. Don’t say, “Oh, Lord, I suffer from wandering thoughts.” Don’t suffer from wandering thoughts. Stop listening to the tyranny of your individual natural life and win freedom into the spiritual life.

“If the Son makes you free … .” Do not substitute Savior for Son in this passage. The Savior has set us free from sin, but this is the freedom that comes from being set free from myself by the Son. It is what Paul meant in Galatians 2:20 when he said, “I have been crucified with Christ … .” His individuality had been broken and his spirit had been united with his Lord; not just merged into Him, but made one with Him. “… you shall be free indeed”—free to the very core of your being; free from the inside to the outside. We tend to rely on our own energy, instead of being energized by the power that comes from identification with Jesus.