Early mornings are good times for me, often thoughts surprise me and then settle in to help and correct.  This morning was one of those mornings.

The initiating thought went something like this: As a Christian we, you and I do not have the right to do as we please. It’s a common teaching, I think, that we all have the right to do as we please.  And you know, for the NOT born again, I think that is a fair statement.  

But if you (and I) have been born again, at that exchange of sin for Righteousness, we (you and I) no longer have the right to do as we please.  We really don’t. 

We (the Redeemed) have been bought back from the evil one, and we forfeited our ‘right’ to sin at that time.   

1 Corinthians 6
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

We are now obligated to obey The Father, obligated to refuse to do as we please. However, glory, hallelujah, we have the right, the authority, and the Power to live holy for His glory and our good. 

John 1
12 But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

2 Peter
3 By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. 4 And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.

And then the next logical thought arrested my attention: If this confronts any one of us as unacceptable, then the only logical thing to do is check in with Him and find out if we have in truth been born again.

Messaging in good faith, Kathie