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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

 

 2 Timothy 2:22
Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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‘Flee’ and ‘pursue’ are two verbs that both paint a picture of real action! Thieves who have just committed a crime and are fleeing, trying to avoid the law, while the police are pursuing with sirens blaring and lights flashing as they speed after the criminals to bring them to justice. That is a picture that television and movies, not to mention real life, have made pretty common to people today. 

The apostle Paul might never have seen any of that but he, far more than most, knew the reality of the thief who comes only to steal, kill and destroy just as Jesus said. {Jn.10:10} He also knew first-hand about the power of the righteousness, faith, love and peace that the Lord has given us, placed in our hearts to deal with any and every scheme of the devil. And then, just as that faithful apostle wrote, having done everything, we must stand firm! {Eph.6:11,13} 

True Christianity is a ‘doing’ faith. God's Word, the foundation of all of our belief, is living and active {Heb.4:12} and we are also called to be living and active—always, all of the time, every day with every breath, not occasionally. As it was written, having done everything! 

A good example of that is recorded in the gospel of Mark when he wrote: “And in the early morning, while it was still dark, He (Jesus) arose and went out and departed to a lonely place, and was praying there. And Simon and his companions hunted for Him (Gr. katadio¯ko¯ - NASB), and they found Him, and said to Him, ‘Everyone is looking for You.’” {Mk.1:35-37} 

Everyone was looking for the Lord, but it was only Peter and the disciples who ‘hunted for Him’ and found Him! There is a great difference between hunting and just looking. One is casual the other requires diligence and effort...perhaps even sacrifice!

Too much of what we call Christianity today is casual and all about us—what feels good, and is, dare I say it, fun! Our desire must be not to feel good but to pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, the things that are good, things that will truly make us overcomers like the saints who have gone on before us: 

“And they overcame him (the accuser) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.” (Revelation 12:11) 

SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MIGHT BE FOUND