Really?
You can go 24 hours without a single selfish thought. You can go 24 hours without being angry at someone, or insulting someone, or thinking bad thoughts about someone. You can go 24 hours without even a hint of lustful thoughts. You can go 24 hours without wasting time on your own pleasure. You can go 24 hours without hating someone or dishonoring your parents or wanting something that doesn’t belong to you or saying anything but the full and complete truth. You can go for a day without even being tempted to sin at all. You can spend an entire day without doing or thinking or saying anything at all that is even the slightest bit less than perfect and holy and righteous in the sight of God.
In that case, Saint Paul better step aside; we’ve got a new super-apostle in town.
Just exactly what does the Bible define as sin? Except for the dishonoring parents, in which my parents are dead, when my focus is on His Word the entire day, when I have it in my heart, on my mind and using it through the works of my hands such as now, YES, I can go an entire day, in fact, many days because my focus is NOT on me, it is on Christ & His Spirit in me. I can hardly stand to even listen to Christian music anymore as it is all about ‘me’, what can He do for “me”. Well, what about ‘what can I do for “HIM”. When my day is focused on Him and not me, those are the most wonderful days of all. they all are not easy days, but they are blessed days.
WWJD, how long has this been out there now? Well, it is a stupid question because we KNOW what Jesus did and He did it as an example that we are to imitate. 1Peter 2:21-22
So maybe if more Christians would begin their day by asking ‘what DID Jesus DO’ and then opening their bibles, reading it, studying it and then apply it to their day, they wouldn’t have so much to be regretful for because we do not know if we will even live to the next day or through the entire next day now do we?
And so today was another ‘good & blessed’ day for me. It was not without trials, but as we applied His Word to those trying times, at the end of this day, we have absolutely NOTHING to regret or repent of because we relied on His example to get us through those trials. And as to those material things you covet, well, we have always lived a simple life and there is nothing that the “Joneses” have that even comes close to the blessings God has graciously endowed us with, such as the day we had today with our grandchildren. Shalom