Affirmation

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Find Confidence In what We Believe

  

In the face of this ever darkening world, it is in one sense becoming harder and harder to convey the reality of what we as Followers of Christ Believe. John Piper- "In a pluralistic, multicultural, relativistic, shrinking world like ours, this will be harder and harder to believe."That is exactly what any college student will run into today, I do not care if you go to a christian school or a secular school, this idea of relativistic has been ingrained in us in some miniscule ways. We as a society have no point of reference. 

It is all about how it Feels 

Don't believe me? It even is ingrained into the weather, it is not enough to know what the temperature is, but we have to know what it feels like. (Example) The weatherman says it is 85 degrees but it feels like 75 degrees... So which is it 85, or 75? If 85 degrees feels like 75 degrees then what does it feel like when it is 75 degrees? What is the point of reference?

We only care how we feel, not what Is. 

I feel like swearing is not wrong.....

I feel unloved by God....

My feelings tell me we should get a divorce.......

I feel like abortion is ok, it just depends on the situation....

I feel like God wants me to...

I feel like God is telling me

I feel like this scripture means

I feel like....

I feel I feel I feel.....

This is what I hear every day, It is all feeling, Sure feelings exist, and are apart of everyday life, but we do not have to feed our feelings, but reaffirm feelings with the truth, with reality. Feelings are God given, emotions are a gift, but true emotions are aligned with action according to the everlasting impact and relationship with Christ. What is an example of emotion not aligned to Christ, well I am glad you asked... Ok very real and happens everyday, There is a man who is married and he works late with another woman, and overtime he develops a care for her, and then that care turned into "love but really lust" He should not pursue this emotion, but instead he should Kill it, he should remove himself and reconnect with his wife and pour his heart into Christ. Repentance. See in that moment the emotions would have been heavy and real, but very deceitful. Not a healthy emotion, but a destructive one.  

Repentance goes against all emotions that are precisely conceived and convinced of at the present time but then after Repentance emotions change the very desire that was once so real no longer is loved or chased after, Repentance is the turning point of emotion and desire.

How does Repentance link to Affirmation in the Faith?

Ok, Repentance is a tell sign that you have been changed, which should correspond and translate into affirmation.  Have Affirmation that the Grave is empty. Be Steadfast in Christ. Because If you are not then this world will seem too much to conquer and you will stumble and fall. Paul just oozes Affirmation 

1 Corinthians 2:2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.




Yes! This states what is clear and true that all Christians Believe. For I have decided, the decision has already been made, it is a done deal once and for all. The God of our salvation is the cause of our salvation so, therefore since you did not earn your salvation by any means whatsoever you cannot lose it, Affirmation, now Go and affirm proclaim with aspiration that You have decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified, We Believe. I Believe no matter what the school systems says, no matter what my government demands, not what my peers perceive, For Christ is Supreme over all.

Colossians 1:16-For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

For Him By Him- Go Grace, Peace and Love