There are many who are lost in the church who truly want so badly to live holy for the Lord.They are lost to who God truly is and what it is he truly requires from us.Many try and apease God the way we apease the people in our life.We try to serve, worship and give to a spiritual God,with a carnal mind. Until we are willing to give up our head,we can't fully give God our heart.
The problem is our head,or carnal mind is enemy to God and the spiritual things He stands for.So it seems everytime you want to give God your all, the carnal mind gives you a reason not to.It tells you things like "it don't take all that" or You don't have to put up with that" or God understands you are only human" and all these things may be true to the will lust and desires of the flesh and the carnal mind,but they hinder you from giving God your whole heart.We must remember God dosn't want our things He wants our whole heart.His word says" give me your heart and I'll give you eternal life".We must come to the realization that the carnal man has no understanding of the spiritual man.The carnal man can't understand suffering for another,can't understand self sacrifice,can't understand losing your life to save it, or the thought of denying ones self taking up a cross and following a crucified savior.So we must be willing to lose our head and let Christ be our head that we might surrender to Him our whole heart.
In our scripture today, it was those who were willing to lose their heads,to tell the story, to stand bold on Gods word,who refuse to worship, give his mind or the business of his hands to the work of the evil one.It is those that were beheaded and surrendered their whole hearts,who will reigning with Christ.So are you willing to lose your head to surrender your heart?
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